This is an interesting sabotage to any figures that want to maintain their presence.
If you search for "brandname twitter", you're probably going to get what you want. "brandname x" will be a SEO catastrophe.
Maybe they hoped to drive people to navigate through their own site and search facilities, but generally, not being where people are looking is a terrible strategy even on a chain of bad strategies.
Corporations just seem to be getting more and more abstract... Here's my ✨ amazing ✨ (non-complete) list:
Firefox still has the fox:
I think he mistakenly referred to the firefox group of things like the password manager, the browser still has the fox logo
Corporate Memphis is just the worst. I dunno why but it gives me heavy dystopian connotations.
It kooks like children were forced to design corporate logos in ms paint.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becoming_X
Appropriate that this album is from the late 90s, which is when the X name would have actually been cool.
A brand that limits users on how many content they can see wouldn't want them to use their search engine when there is a free one that does it better
Just pronounce it like we would pronounce a Chinese name, where the X are pronounced sh
Twitter -> Xitter [shitter]
It’s a Roman numeral for me…
Although Mac OS X was used as a roman numeral when it first launched. It lost all meaning when they added the code names to it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System see logo and name in case not familiar with the context
I love how the X wm came from the W wm which was in the V OS
I honestly think it is close enough to the x.org logo to be a trademark suit.
If X is no longer twitter, how long till the copyright on the twitter brand expires?
You can't argue anyone would confuse a website called twitter with 'X'.
Maybe Zuckerberg could rebrand threads Twitter.
That would genuinely be funny, I'm all for it
Trademark not copyright. Copyright only applies to entire works like a song text or the code Twitter has produced. For example the song title alone is not copyrighted. A trademark realistically only expires when it gets contested in court.
Is there a law that you must use a trademark to keep it?
There's a similar law where you must at least defend a trademark against misuse to keep hold of it. That was the reasoning behind this music video for Velcro:
So, based on that, maybe they won't lose it just by not using it. But if someone else tried to establish a Twitter product, they may lose the trademark if they don't fight it.
Just from an economic standpoint, it's such a terrible decision. The Twitter bird is iconic to the point where the trademark itself is worth a considerable amount. This is like Disney dumping Mickey Mouse for a side character in The Dark Cauldron.
𝕎𝕆𝕎, 𝕊𝕌𝕔𝕙 𝔸𝕟 𝔼𝕏𝕔𝕀𝕋𝕀𝕟𝔾 𝔸𝕟𝔻 𝕔𝕣𝔼𝔸𝕋𝕀𝕍𝔼 𝕀𝕔𝕆𝕟
RIP people searching google for help with "X" on Windows.
xorg, x11, x display server
x twitter, x.com
x.org has this a big fat link to follow them under, that must be where the X social network is now.
A guy made wayland social to prove superiority lmao
Can’t wait for the first X on X by X Æ A-12 about the SpaceX launch
Oh no, i love the x-com games. They don't deserve to be the name sponsor for Elons weird platform.
Classic Elon, will tweeting be called sexting and is this the main reason for the name change?
Sometimes I wonder if the Claudian letters stuck and, just like we got X for /ks/ (or /gz/... or /ʃ/... or whatever, this letter is a mess), we also got a Ↄ for /ps/. Maybe modern people would be also spamming Ↄ for this sort of "rule of cool"?
When I first read this post, I thought the CSS had gone wonky and part of the O was cut off.
·puᴉɯ ou ʎɐꓒ ·ǝnɓoɹ sǝoɓ SSꓛ ǝɥʇ sǝɯᴉʇǝɯoS
CSS? You mean ZZↃ?
ƧƧↃ
Musk's gon' bill it to ya
Tired of tweeting for free? X's gonna monetize ya
Tap tap, open up the app, it's ~~free~~...
With the non-stop, cash grab of premium fees
Riding rockets, now he's starbound and sold
But he got such a grand scheme
That'll make a tweeter wonder if he’s been memed
Damn right, and he'll charge you again, 'cause he's Elon, so hes gots to win
Tweet battles with the freemium, but no matter how many cats he boxes with, he'll profit on your scene and win
I honestly wonder if this is going to end up forcing the X graphics system to rename itself based on trademark law.
I doubt it. They don't compete and X has preceded Elon's rebrand by decades.
XBox brand in shambles.
"χ"... A most ancient letter. Some say "kye," but the meaning is the same. Death... A letter that spells endings
This is such a bad move just from an SEO perspectiv
Elon is breaking up with his X and starting anew