Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears

Such a genuinely shit name.

I’m not even one of the rabid Musk haters, but it’s just an absolutely dreadful name that a 10 year old thinks is cool…

"We're expect folks will go along and stop referring to 'tweeting' and go with the more brand appropriate term of 'x-creting' from now on." Musk said before adding, "'X-cretions' and 'x-creted' are encouraged too.

You'll remember that name, because the moment the site appears, you'll click the little X on the top right corner of your computer screen to get rid of it.

It’s called X now.… proceeds to prompt “log in to twitter”.

This is becoming a branding shit show.

Do the "twitter videos" become "x videos" now?

Brilliant move by Musk. 'X' has long been identified as the universal symbol for closing out of an application. Hopefully with this move even more people will permanently close out of Twitter and move on so I don't have to read so many dumb news stories where the lazy journalist uses a few random tweets as their "source" for the headline.

So let me get this straight. Musk bought Twitter for 44 billion, fired most of the staff, destroyed bunch of features and functionality, scared advertisers away and now changed the brand's name. Wouldn't it be less hassle to just start a platform and pay people $100 each as a sign up bonus?

My contribution to this new logo.

All of this is just noise designed to keep us talking about the site. You could call it bad advertising. We should stop feeding the troll.

what a fucking moron

Hahaha. Wow is this ever stupid. And getting stupider by the second.

Go to twitter.com, it goes "X" and then "Sign in to Twitter".

You missed a spot there Elon. You know what we industry professionals do - it's called a "design process". You:

• Mock up the way you want it to look
• Make it look that way
• Then you push it live.

This is important because the thing everyone hated about Twitter was definitely the logo. Should have done this much sooner. High priority stuff.

No idea how people are still buying and riding in this guy's cars after seeing how badly he runs a website.

Time to switch to Wayland

I really want X.org to challenge this move in court and win!

@mastermind

Problem. I have gone to Twitter and am clicking the X but it won't close.

instead of tweet you now xcrete

The bird will live on in cities: skylines 2

The old logo and name were a work of marketing art, and still so simple you get the gist of the platform from it. This is just, what the fuck dude.

X

Happening now

Join Twitter today.

But how do I join X? You know, the new thing supposedly currently happening? Why would I join boring old twitter now that X is happening?

Genius at work.

Isn’t an “X” how illiterate people signed their name?

Buy and then kill one of most recognizable brands of the early 21st century. Elon truly is the genius he and his bootlickers believe him to be.

is there a way to block all elon musk and twitter news?

Guess i’ll now just call it “The company formerly known as Twitter” 🤷🏻‍♂️

I hope they rename Tweets to Xcretes

If we lived in meritocracy, Elon would be living in his moms basement instead of being a billionaire.

Tweets are now eXcretions!

Ribbit

Guys the Android app is still called Twitter.

What...

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This has been his plan since a long time ago, he's just following up on it now https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/05/tech/everything-app-x-musk-china-wechat-learnings-intl-hnk/index.html

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

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

Years of brand recognition down the drain. Twitter was such a big part of our culture that you literarily have movies, tv shows, music promoting it indirectly.

Less than 1% of Twitter users signed up for blue. Elon, nobody in its right mind wants your WeChat clone.

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.

Haven't updated their favicon yet lmao nice work.

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

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

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

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

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

TWITTER IS NOW X.ORG

THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP LADS

ITS HAPPENING

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It's pronounced "ten" right?

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?

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.

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.

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

Twitter now equals broken image icon.

X Not Gon' Give It To Ya

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

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

I don't understand the reason behind this. The consistency is all over the place behind the brand. Is this a lead-in into a larger idea? that will "connect all the dots". Or are these literally off the cuff changes? The creator payout for ads, seems like the only positive update that made sense recently, along with subscriptions, although those didn't really seem to affect the smaller accounts with <100k followers etc.

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

It's X because it's X-Treme!!!! Free X Blue for anyone who can do sweet BMX tricks!

Whatever happens to twitter is not my concern. Die twitter. Die.

So he's ripping off the X Window logo. Did he get trolled into it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System

Fits kinda nicely into the whole gross capitalist dystopian inbred fatcat vibe of his

Hmm, black and white design. Seems coincidentally appropriate. Though if he adds some red in there he'll have enough justification to have his employees wear uniforms designed by Hugo Boss.

Euck Flon

How long until Elon starts referring to himself as Mr X, like Homer does in an episode of The Simpsons?

Good, now shut it down. One step closer!

Bro is literally flipping the bird

Elon is genuinely useless

The death of Twitter as we know.....

Well I moved to Masrodon so no big deal.

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Symbolizing the killing of the whole thing.

Good name for anticipating the eXodus.

The platform formerly known as Twitter.

It would actually take serious effort to think of a worse name. Besides everyone knew what Twitter and tweeting are. Incomprehensible decision.

Elongated Muskrat continues to deliver on the endless entertainment.

The new name goes well with the audience as they already use extensively nazi swastika symbols as an expression of opinions.

Fat Idiot went full cuckoo.

what were they thinking?

Elon is trying to get the Crest from Birdmans Helmet.

The Favicon is still the bird.

Twitter simply stopped using a staging environment or any QA before pushing anything live, it seems.

😂😂😂😂😂😂 that dipshit really did it

What if Elon and Zack are in this together and Zack promised Elon a chunk of the shares for making threads successful by destroying the competition of Twitter with something more profit producing. Elon's reputation is just the sacrificial goat for making threads a success for both billionaires.

Puts aluminum hat back on.

Why does Xerox have a social media app now?

man i hope he buys reddit and runs it into the ground. he seems to be really good at tearing down social media companies.

Thank you, Elon, absolutely genius business decision! I was really put off using a website with a highly recognisable and long lived brand, finally this solves the biggest issue I've had with Twitter since the takeover. It was such a huge issue before that it eclipsed everything else, I don't even think there are any other glaring issues. Can't wait to log back into Twitter now after this! Oh shit I mean ... X or whatever.

Eggs, Eggs, Eggs, EggsEggs.

And how do you call a “tweet” now?

I guess birds aren't real after all.

Is he going to start/but two more platforms and call the S and E?

Elon add Se to x you coward

At least the greatest advantage of renaming it to "X" is that now, I know where to click whenever I'll unwillingly open up a page from that said website. 😃

Can't wait to xeet (pronounced zee-t).

I got my fourteenth Twitter anniversary message sent - after seeing the X logo appear instead of the iconic Twitter bird logo.

As an X Japan fan, this is all very confusing.

Yes.

Your browser may have the old image in its cache, but reloading the page from a browser without it in it's cache would yield an up to date favicon.

Or just Ctrl+F5

Great, now rename it to Shitter

He did it to silence critics and the X is a symbol to his fans.

Stop posting about this dude, you’re not getting paid to promote it.

I swear people have just become slaves to bad content for the sake of acknowledgement.

Eventually someone has to stick hey

well shit y'all, we won. it's over, we can all go back.

He needs three more.

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And it finally dies.

Users there are ripping on the decision a lot.

The new icon just dropped:

Don't forget to turn off automatic updates for twitter if you're stuck using it till you can get a bluesky invite!

Why do people keep discussing this? Specially here on lemmy?

Then people wonder why Rich people keep getting rich... because everyone keeps giving them attention.