Cont: Musk buys Twitter II

Twitter owner Elon Musk has said he wants to get rid of the Twitter bird logo, and replace it with an "X".

However, Mr Musk also has a history of making statements that fail to happen or are not serious.

Mr Musk, who has changed the name of the business to X Corp, said the replacement "should have been done a long time ago".

According to reports, the billionaire wants to create a "super app" called "X" which is similar to China's WeChat.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66284304
 
How about a compromise: replace the logo with the Dead Bod meme that graffiti artist from Hull paints all over the place, and use an X for its eye?

(Worth a Google, rest of the world folks. It's really odd.)
 
Andy_Ross said:
Twitter owner Elon Musk has said he wants to get rid of the Twitter bird logo, and replace it with an "X".



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66284304
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Why not? Musk has already devalued everything else, why not trash the brand recognition too.

Musk has succeeded in making Twitter into a second-rate knockoff of itself, though generally the Twitter clones don't cost billions of dollars to create.
 
Who would pay billions to buy one of the most recognised brand logos in the world then decide to get rid of it?
 
Andy_Ross said:
Who would pay billions to buy one of the most recognised brand logos in the world then decide to get rid of it?
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I refer you to the highlighted part of this earlier reply.
Upchurch said:
You mean X, the universal UI element for quitting out of something on a computer?

That's the kind Musk intelligence, foresight, and leadership we come to expect.
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Great move, because X doesn't already have a well-established presence on the internet, or a multi-billion dollar industry behind it.

Oh wait, I just Googled X and had to take it off Safe Search. Holy cow! Someone should show Elon what comes up when you search X!

Seriously, how many government and corporate internet servers might end up blocking Twitter X automatically due to the name?
 
Axxman300 said:
Great move, because X doesn't already have a well-established presence on the internet, or a multi-billion dollar industry behind it.

Oh wait, I just Googled X and had to take it off Safe Search. Holy cow! Someone should show Elon what comes up when you search X!

Seriously, how many government and corporate internet servers might end up blocking Twitter X automatically due to the name?
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Snort
 
Andy_Ross said:
Who would pay billions to buy one of the most recognised brand logos in the world then decide to get rid of it?
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Quite mysterious. Musk could have created a lousy Twitter clone using his x.com branding full of spam bots and weird Elon fanboys for a fraction of the fortune he paid for Twitter. He doesn't seem interested in preserving any of this company he paid way too much for.

Increasingly difficult to see any reason for him to buy Twitter and run it into the ground other than he's a not very smart reactionary with an easily bruised ego and poor impulse control.
 
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TurkeysGhost said:
Quite mysterious. Musk could have created a lousy Twitter clone using his x.com branding full of spam bots and weird Elon fanboys for a fraction of the fortune he paid for Twitter. He doesn't seem interested in preserving any of this company he paid way too much for.

Increasingly difficult to see any reason for him to buy Twitter and run it into the ground other than he's a not very smart reactionary with an easily bruised ego and poor impulse control.
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Who surrounds himself with sycophants so he thinks he's a genius in multiple fields
 
Axxman300 said:
Great move, because X doesn't already have a well-established presence on the internet, or a multi-billion dollar industry behind it.

Oh wait, I just Googled X and had to take it off Safe Search. Holy cow! Someone should show Elon what comes up when you search X!

Seriously, how many government and corporate internet servers might end up blocking Twitter X automatically due to the name?
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Interesting. I just did the same and mostly got images of the letter X in various fonts and an SFW movie poster for what looks like a fairly B movie horror film from last year. That was with Safe Search off.

I guess it's true what they say: Google gives you results based on previous searches and visited web sites :)

One thing though: there was no hint of the social media site formerly known as Twitter on page 1 of the results.
 
I mean, the only way “X” works is if you pair it with something. X-Men, X-treme, X-Sports, even Space X.

By itself, you’re either assuming it’s porn or 4 decades of convention kicks in and you will have people assuming that clicking on will make it go away.

But even if people get over that, you are still in the awkward position where some of the X’s on the screen takes you to the home page and some of the X’s close windows. From a branding perspective, it’s just a mess.
 
Just a little background ...

Musk helped found x.com which eventually became PayPal and made Musk a lot of money. The x.com domain redirects to Twitter now.
 
jadebox said:
Just a little background ...

Musk helped found x.com which eventually became PayPal and made Musk a lot of money. The x.com domain redirects to Twitter now.
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Important addition to that is that Musk was wisely removed as CEO twice on the series of buyouts that lead to Paypal's rise, and complaints about his leadership seem quite familiar to his disastrous running of Twitter (micromanaging, overconfident in his limited technical skills, hostility towards employees who actually know how things work). Getting Musk out of the way seems a necessary component to allowing his businesses to succeed.

With Musk returning to his original X.com branding, you have to wonder how much of this disastrous Twitter acquisition is driven about his insecurity of being driven out of these companies that seemed to succeed once he was removed as an impediment.
 
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X is the universal symbol for closing computer windows and programs, which is more than a fitting symbol considering what's happening to twitter as Elon is apparently driven to destroy it and lose as much money as possible in the process.
 
Linda Yaccarino tweeted

X is the future state of unlimited interactivity – centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking – creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities. Powered by AI, X will connect us all in ways we’re just beginning to imagine.
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She's changed her profile header to the new X logo

https://twitter.com/lindayacc/status/1683213997183574017?t=oWC6gZ4qUb0eu7bzGJGFLA&s=19

There's a whole thread of similarly gibberish posts
 
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