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Twitter To Rebrand As X (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There is 0% chance this man is neither on drugs nor having a severe mental breakdown.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Ah yes, an X for the company known for their ✓. I'm sure that won't be confusing at any point.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That'll solve all the problems.

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

With what staff? Rebranding is fucking expensive.

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

Elon thinks all you need to do is change the site CSS and maybe do a press release, and he's famous enough that the rest will just take care of itself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

He's not entirely wrong.

In business, a poor person doesn't get to try, a middle class person gets one shot after putting everything on the line and a rich person can afford to fail a dozen or more times until they hit a winner. Elon has enough money that he can basically try an infinite number of times and at least some of those are going to work.

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

Logo that was in the GIF Musk posted looks an awful lot like X11 logo.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Same shit sandwich, new brand

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

So.... is this just like a really dumb cost-cutting measure to stop paying fees for the twitter domain/brand name or something, since he already owns the name "X"?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

no.

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

I saw rumors of this a few weeks ago but didn't think anything of it. Is the domain changing too? Part of this the Comcast to Xfinity move, rebranding to drop association, I think. But Twitter's brand wasn't that bad so I don't know.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

x.com already redirects to twitter. I suspect that will be changed to the other way around soon enough (twitter redirecting to x)

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

WTF did Elon even bring to PayPal when he merged with Confinity if he still has control over the x.com URL and name? It certainly wasn't competent leadership.