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So "X" - nothing to see here. Elon's in control - Part XXX **Threadbans in OP**

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    #7142
    Penn
    Registered Users Posts: 33,667 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Musk seemingly moving towards changing the name of Twitter to X, and removing the bird logo for an X.

    Basically, changing some of the most recognisable branding and associated nomenclature in the world for something so incredibly bland and nonsensical.



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    #7143
    Penn
    Registered Users Posts: 33,667 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120886998#Comment_120886998

    Pretty much confirmed.

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-gets-rid-of-twitter-bird_n_64bd44f3e4b0df863210e2d0?d_id=6109942&ncid_tag=tweetlnkushpmg00000067&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=us_main

    Logo revealed, tweets will be now known as 'An X' and followers will now be called viewers.

    Can't wait to log into X to see DMX re-X an X from Xzibit.



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    #7144
    Davis Salmon Scumbag
    Posts: 13,688 ✭ Davis Salmon Scumbag


    How long until he attempts to trademark the letter 'X'?



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    #7145
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,469 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    An X?

    This cannot be serious. Why on earth would you want to replace one of the world's most recognisable, iconic digital identities with ... That? I get it's now the umbrella org but yeesh.



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    #7146
    Headshot
    Registered Users Posts: 54,288 ✭✭✭✭Headshot


    hahahaha

    what a f-ing idiot

    Getting rid of one of the most recognised brands in the world for just an X



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    #7147
    Tony EH
    Registered Users Posts: 19,277 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    if this is true it's one of the dumbest moves I've heard in ages.



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    #7148
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,469 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120887602#Comment_120887602

    It has to be a wind up. I can't believe Musk is that arrogant and stupid to reset a brand as ubiquitous as Twitter - it'd be as if Coca Cola rebranded itself to .. ... I dunno, "Brown".



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    #7149
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,616 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    It's more than likely a very lame publicity stunt where he changes the name and logo for 24 hours then backtracks with a meme.

    To show how strong his meme game is.



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    #7150
    astrofool
    Registered Users Posts: 16,654 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    @Beasty should update the thread title accordingly.



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    #7151
    nachouser
    Registered Users Posts: 1,888 ✭✭✭nachouser


    Well, he did name one of his kids X Æ A-Xii, so it tracks. Also, x.com now re-points to twitter.com

    Which probably means an old tweet will now be an xcrete.



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    #7152
    Penn
    Registered Users Posts: 33,667 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    Even when Facebook changed the name of the head company to Meta, they still kept the main Facebook/Instagram branding for the sites because of their ubiquity and recognition.

    Twitter is now already part of a parent company of Musk's called X.com, but re-branding the entirety of Twitter as well as all the features names to follow suit is another step to stripping away all the things the site has going for it and making it worse.

    'X' doesn't flow. 'Post an X', 'Re-X someone's X', 'Quote X another X-er's X', '(Celebrity) just X-ed an X announcing (event) on X.com'

    It's just so f*cking stupid that only Musk would be smart enough to come up with it, because even a dumb person wouldn't intentionally do something that makes so little sense.



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    #7153
    Kevrano
    Registered Users Posts: 158 ✭✭Kevrano


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120887536#Comment_120887536

    There were rumours he only bought Twitter to provide a data source for his AI project. Which does sound like a get out clause, but the fact he is trying to totally destroy Twitter, would add a little credence to the story.



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    #7154
    Tony EH
    Registered Users Posts: 19,277 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120887666#Comment_120887666

    It's more than likely is a load of old pony.

    But little surprises me any more, especially when it comes to bored American billionaires with more money than sense.



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    #7155
    mcmoustache
    Registered Users Posts: 7,236 ✭✭✭mcmoustache


    Allegedly not the first time (no idea who the twitter account is but the image looks legit):

    https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1683187321078792193



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    #7156
    Penn
    Registered Users Posts: 33,667 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    https://twitter.com/TechnicallyRon/status/1683196200256696322?s=19

    As for whether this is Musk just showing that his meme game is strong or just winding people up, it's important to note that in the early days of PayPal, he tried to have it rebranded to X.com but was voted off the board.

    He's also spoken about wanting Twitter to be an 'everything' kind of app. Not just tweets and short clips, but everything; tweets, long posts, pics, videos, tiktok-style clips, group chats like WhatsApp etc. He wants it to be 'everything'. In which case, calling it Twitter and keeping the branding would be restrictive because people would never see it as being anything more than Twitter was.

    If he does indeed want his X.com site to be 'everything', buying Twitters userbase and making them X.com users would be a reasonable move.

    The issue is, he's annoyed about 90% of the userbase and turned them off whatever it is he wants to do with X.com.



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    #7157
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,469 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    I'm still convinced this is just another wind up ... but that story of PayPal is a bit of a smoking gun.

    X.com though - it's not a good name. There's just no spinning it into something the common parlance would use.



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    #7158
    Flaneur OBrien
    Registered Users Posts: 3,837 ✭✭✭Flaneur OBrien


    Is it in preparation for him being an x-billionaire?



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    #7159
    skimpydoo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,914 ✭✭✭skimpydoo


    This dumb rebranding brings this to mind.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adnNrK11pu0




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    #7160
    Penn
    Registered Users Posts: 33,667 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120888329#Comment_120888329
    https://twitter.com/lindayacc/status/1683213895463215104?s=19

    I would in my hairy f*ck trust "X" with anything to do with payments/banking. Jesus it's been struggling to do just Twitter



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    #7161
    Tony EH
    Registered Users Posts: 19,277 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120888371#Comment_120888371

    It sounds like a porn site.



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    #7162
    Harika
    Registered Users Posts: 4,442 ✭✭✭Harika


    As next step Elmo will change the order of the buttons at the app. Cause everyone loves change



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    #7163
    Bobeagleburger
    Registered Users Posts: 45,463 ✭✭✭✭Bobeagleburger


    Man baby strikes again



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    #7164
    Vicxas
    Registered Users Posts: 15,360 ✭✭✭✭Vicxas


    "X" - I Mean, WTF



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    #7165
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,469 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120888656#Comment_120888656

    Up 'til now i've never really, totally bought into the idea of Musk destroying Twitter: not least 'cos I've said we won't know til about 18 months+ after the initial takeover what shape the company is in to regard its future prospects. So as information like the cratered ad revenue has started to paint a better picture of where Twitter exists as a viable entity, and what effect Musk's changes + overall reputational impact has had, I think now we can start to speculate with more "certainty" - insofar as uninformed crash observers here can do.

    This x.com idea though truly has the whiff of something potentially, existentially destructive to Twitter as an ongoing entity - but again, assuming it's not:

    a) a massive troll

    b) declared a massive troll after public rejection forces Musk to climb-down once again, saving face with a "LOL, only joking crybabies"

    I just don't see a willing public ingestion of something that makes such an extreme mutation to an existing, global brand as Twitter; such a simple brand too at that. Even technophobic older demographics get what Twitter is. And if those tweets are genuine, and the intent is to pivot into another attempt at the "Do anything" business model, then I further question Twitter's future. Even Facebook - a company that from the outset intended to become an indispensable part of life itself - struggled to both get enough buy-in into that model, and to make money off of it. They're still struggling really, what with a plateaued userbase, and the VR boondoggle going nowhere fast.

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120888903#Comment_120888903

    It sounds like the stale brain-fart of an early 2000s young adult; I'm sure I'd have thought x.com was cool as shít back when I was in my post-teens in the early 2000s, listening to Greenday and watching Shrek... but ye gods I grew up. Now I have a whole different set of stupid ideas I think are cool. 🤣



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    #7166
    Penn
    Registered Users Posts: 33,667 ✭✭✭✭Penn


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120889208#Comment_120889208

    If he bought Twitter, left it alone, then set up whatever he wants X.com to be and said "Hey, you can link your Twitter account to your X.com account", that would have been a reasonable move.

    Instead he's taking Twitter and trying to morph it into something that nobody who uses Twitter, wants Twitter to do. Twitter's entire selling point was micro-blogging; very short and succinct messaging, blogging, news/info snippets, and just a few pics or a short video clip. That was the entire point of it.

    As much as he clearly ended up not wanting to buy Twitter and now has no choice but to try to make something of it, all he's really ended up buying is Twitter's existing userbase. But I think once Threads from Meta really starts getting up and running, that userbase will dwindle fairly sharpish.

    RIP Twitter



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    #7167
    Quin_Dub
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 15,481 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quin_Dub


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120888656#Comment_120888656

    He wants to re-create WeChat so it's not even a new idea.

    WeChat is all pervasive in China and is used for everything.

    BUT - That's only because everything else is banned in China so it has no competitors.

    It does not exist outside China because when people have a choice to use all the other available apps to do all the things they want , they do not choose WeChat, because it's shite.

    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120889378#Comment_120889378

    Ah yes.. Let's flush tens of billions of dollars down the toilet to "own the libs"..

    Customer don't "own" twitter , but without them it's kinda f*cked so if he's really just "owning the libs" he's in real trouble , because without them he has no business.

    I mean look at all those other hugely successful multi-billion dollar companies out there that focus on the "Right-wing douche" market .

    I mean there's loads of them isn't there???



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    #7168
    pixelburp
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 36,469 CMod ✭✭✭✭pixelburp


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120889378#Comment_120889378

    Ya know there are far cheaper ways to troll people than buying an entire corporation for more money than it's worth - then wholesale changing things to the extent you admit to the public your ad revenue is down 50%?

    And it might be his company but his F'ing around with it is costing thousands of people's jobs and livelihoods - plus all the many knock-on effects mass job losses can have on any local economy (basic income spending; childcare etc. etc. etc); the tech bubble might have shrunk across the industry, but nobody has shed their workforce to the extreme extent Musk did.

    But something something "libtards"? Yeah, I bet they're really crying into their blue hair rinse & avocado brunches. Think you're mistaking the tears of laughter for that of sorrow.



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    #7169
    Bobeagleburger
    Registered Users Posts: 45,463 ✭✭✭✭Bobeagleburger


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120889378#Comment_120889378

    I think you're watching too many clips. Time for an algorithm reset.



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    #7170
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,725 ✭ [Deleted User]


    You get that feeling Musk wasn’t told no as a child. And now he’s a big manchild who doesn’t listen to anyone as he thinks he’s the cleverest man in the world.



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    #7171
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,902 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120888656#Comment_120888656

    Gets closer and closer to sounding like 'Evilcorp' from Mr.Robot by the day.



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