Thermal
August Member
Are they still tweets? Xs don't really tweet anything, like little birdies do. The world moves too fast for me.
Are they still tweets? Xs don't really tweet anything, like little birdies do. The world moves too fast for me.
You don't spell, "typing up their resumes" like that.
a_unique_person
Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning
They are now zits.
Gulliver Foyle
Philosopher
Nonsense, it's just pining for the fjords!
https://twitter.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1683567604340752385?s=20
Quoted tweet has video of the bird being removed.
A branding idea that made "Consignia" seem like a work of genius
Quoted tweet has video of the bird being removed.
A branding idea that made "Consignia" seem like a work of genius
X pronounced Sh......
dudalb
Penultimate Amazing
"With the Secert Ingrediant, Smiley!"
Puppycow
Penultimate Amazing
Lol. Like this is going to help.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66284304
"Hey, did you see what so-and-so x'ed?" "Tweet" at least is easy to understand as a verb and has already entered the lexicon. If you say someone "tweeted" something, people understand what that means. If you they "x'ed" something, people won't understand.
Whatever you think about Twitter, it is at least a recognizable brand. Now you have to start that process over. Imagine Coca-Cola rebranding. That would be throwing away something that took decades to build. You don't just do that on a whim.
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-66284304
"Hey, did you see what so-and-so x'ed?" "Tweet" at least is easy to understand as a verb and has already entered the lexicon. If you say someone "tweeted" something, people understand what that means. If you they "x'ed" something, people won't understand.
Whatever you think about Twitter, it is at least a recognizable brand. Now you have to start that process over. Imagine Coca-Cola rebranding. That would be throwing away something that took decades to build. You don't just do that on a whim.
Puppycow
Penultimate Amazing
It certainly does that in Japan I can say. There's a sort of code of 4 symbols that often stand for degrees of how acceptable something is.
The symbols are:
◎ 〇 △ ×
The double circle means top-rate. The single circle means good, but not great. The triangle means barely acceptable and the X stands for unacceptable. People use it as a hand gesture too. Crossing your forearms to make an X shape means no, stop, etc.
dirtywick
Penultimate Amazing
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could sure go for a cold x of x-cola right now
Meta already appears to holds the rights to an X logo.
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-holds-rights-to-x-twitter-rebrand-elon-musk-2023-7
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-holds-rights-to-x-twitter-rebrand-elon-musk-2023-7
arthwollipot
Limerick Purist Pronouns: He/Him
Funny, I always thought it would be Alphabet.
Puppycow
Penultimate Amazing
My understanding of Trademark law is that you have to actually use it, or you lose it. You can register a trademark or a logo, but if you don't actually use them in association with any products or services, you could lose the right to those trademarks.
My question is: what product and/or service does Meta actually provide or offer in association with this trademark?
Andy_Ross
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You certainly have to defend them.
Checkmite
Skepticifimisticalationist
Why Musk wants to change Twitter's name and logo at all has already been covered pretty much; but if you're wondering why Musk is fixated on changing Twitter's name specifically to X, it's because Musk originally had the idea of changing PayPal's name to X back when he worked for them in the early days, and he was so convinced of the greatness of this idea that he allegedly personally purchased the x.com domain name for over a million dollars in the hopes of selling it to PayPal at a substantial profit, plans which were frustrated of course when that just never happened.
If that's truly the case, then what we're seeing is yet another business move driven by a long-standing personal rage over a past rejection. It is important that of all the claims about Twitter being an "everything app", the only clearly envisioned future capability is "payments"; i.e., the domain of PayPal, the company that rejected his genius idea.
It's also...really dumb. We're going to have to move from a very naturally-flowing lingo where a tweet is something that is posted on Twitter to an ambiguous one where an X is something that is posted on X. Considering how ingrained discussion of Twitter and things that happen on it has become in media in general, it's going to make for a very awkward transition. Some are going to just resign to still calling them Twitter and tweets purely for the sake of conversational clarity, and it will be amusing to watch what kind of tantrums Musk will throw over that.
If that's truly the case, then what we're seeing is yet another business move driven by a long-standing personal rage over a past rejection. It is important that of all the claims about Twitter being an "everything app", the only clearly envisioned future capability is "payments"; i.e., the domain of PayPal, the company that rejected his genius idea.
It's also...really dumb. We're going to have to move from a very naturally-flowing lingo where a tweet is something that is posted on Twitter to an ambiguous one where an X is something that is posted on X. Considering how ingrained discussion of Twitter and things that happen on it has become in media in general, it's going to make for a very awkward transition. Some are going to just resign to still calling them Twitter and tweets purely for the sake of conversational clarity, and it will be amusing to watch what kind of tantrums Musk will throw over that.
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I saw someone pointing out that the 'infinity'-looking Meta symbol has an x-shape in it.
I am not a trademark lawyer.
Puppycow
Penultimate Amazing
Probably not relevant, IMO. An infinity shape is different enough that nobody would confuse one for the other.
Neither am I, and we can probably assume the same for all of us, unless someone tells us otherwise. However, I do work in a field related to intellectual property, specifically patent translation (but very occasionally other IP-related documents).
jeremyp
Philosopher
There's an issue with that, at least from the point of view of the iPhone app. As you may be aware, all iPhone apps have to go through a review by Apple before they are allowed to be distributed through the app store.
Unfortunately, a serious technical problem has arisen in that the review engineers are too busy wetting themselves laughing to pass the app.