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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Guys the Android app is still called Twitter.

What...

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like the logo for a hair salon or fashion magazine or something lol

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is wild, a significant percentage of Twitter's value was its brand, and this guy has just slapped an X on it and changed the colour scheme to dark mode. Do people actually still use Twitter?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • 80 percent of the workforce fired -> maintenance issues crowd up
  • server bills went unpaid -> service became flaky
  • office bills went unpaid ->Twitter got evicted from many of its offices
  • Nazis, white supremacists, racists, white nationalists, xenophobes, homophobes and other trash back on service -> many regular users left the platform
  • journalists and reporters got banned and/or harassed -> many of them left the platform
  • public news services got harassed and branded as state owned media -> many of them left the platform
  • blue checkmarks (including many of the unbanned Nazis and racists) were promoted to the top -> many regular users left the platform

The brand name and the logo were literally the only thing Musk had left from his purchase.

Makes sense that he's out to destroy those as well.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

The weird thing is that x.com sometimes loads into Twitter and sometimes doesn't, which shows that there's really no management in all of this.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lmao the favicon is still a bird

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

𝕏

It’s one of the hollow letters used in math.

Basically what I’m saying is math should sue him.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even the new name implementation feels half-assed. It still says Twitter everywhere you go on the website in words. Like why not wait until you’re fully ready to make the change?

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What will happen next?! The Logo is really similar to x.org or their X Window System.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It really isn't. It's an X. There's not much to it.

It's a shit name, it's a shit logo, it's a shit platform. But it's far from a copyright infringement. Especially because no-one will confuse the cesspool named Twitter X with a window manager for unix systems

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Twitter X doesn't have enough Xs in it. I vote to rename Twitter X to T Wixxer, at least here in Germany.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

okay but why in the world would he rename it, what could he possibly gain from doing it? Twitter was going to die either ways but it seems Elon is getting impatient and wants to see it dead sooner

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

TWITTER IS NOW X.ORG

THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP LADS

ITS HAPPENING

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

now i get where the name spacex comes from. it's the space version of musk's x company...

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's pronounced "ten" right?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How am I supposed to make a filter to block "X"? I know Lemmy doesn't support it yet but on Boost I could add filters to block certain posts with words/names.

I'm hoping that Boost for Lemmy will have this feature but my first question still stands. Blocking Twitter was easy because it was specific. How am I supposed to block a letter? I

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This seems like it's a ploy just to get attention and traffic. Seems that it's working as I'm seeing it in all the news sites.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Haven't updated their favicon yet lmao nice work.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

They’ve updated literally nothing except the icon as far as i can see.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn, their brand guidelines still uses the old logo, his designers probably didn't have a say.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why replace twitter though? Do you what facebook did with threads. Launch a new app and allow existing twitter users to automatically onboard.

People hate having major changes hoisted on them. See reddit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I like how the suggestion in the comments is 10x better and more effective than what the multi billion dollar company went for

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Whoever is still there is going to call a tweet a tweet and X, Twitter.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

I'd love it if he extra fucks up and Jack Dorsey somehow gets the Twitter name back for bluesky

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just wait for Musky to try and start suing people for using anything with "X" in the title/name.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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