Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears
Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears
The new X logo has started replacing the blue bird on the web.
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.
Hahaha. Wow is this ever stupid. And getting stupider by the second.
what a fucking moron
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.
Problem. I have gone to Twitter and am clicking the X but it won't close.
I really want X.org to challenge this move in court and win!
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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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 for Reddit 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?
Damn, their brand guidelines still uses the old logo, his designers probably didn't have a say.
Twitter now equals broken image icon.
I'd love it if he extra fucks up and Jack Dorsey somehow gets the Twitter name back for bluesky
X Not Gon' Give It To Ya
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.
It's X because it's X-Treme!!!! Free X Blue for anyone who can do sweet BMX tricks!
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.
Good name for anticipating the eXodus.
Bro is literally flipping the bird
How long until Elon starts referring to himself as Mr X, like Homer does in an episode of The Simpsons?
Elon is genuinely useless
Good, now shut it down. One step closer!
The death of Twitter as we know.....
Well I moved to Masrodon so no big deal.
It would actually take serious effort to think of a worse name. Besides everyone knew what Twitter and tweeting are. Incomprehensible decision.
Symbolizing the killing of the whole thing.
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The new name goes well with the audience as they already use extensively nazi swastika symbols as an expression of opinions.
Elongated Muskrat continues to deliver on the endless entertainment.
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.
what were they thinking?
Elon is trying to get the Crest from Birdmans Helmet.
Fat Idiot went full cuckoo.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 that dipshit really did it
Eggs, Eggs, Eggs, EggsEggs.
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.
I guess birds aren't real after all.
Is he going to start/but two more platforms and call the S and E?
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).
As an X Japan fan, this is all very confusing.
Great, now rename it to Shitter
Elon add Se to x you coward
I got my fourteenth Twitter anniversary message sent - after seeing the X logo appear instead of the iconic Twitter bird logo.
well shit y'all, we won. it's over, we can all go back.
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.
He needs three more.
Eventually someone has to stick hey
And it finally dies.
The new icon just dropped:
Users there are ripping on the decision a lot.
