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X sounds gloomy and dystopian. the promo video he posted for x even includes this sinister static effect. just the dumbest branding change ever. the bird logo and the name "twitter" were the best things about the "hell site."

treeship., Monday, 24 July 2023 14:23 (nine months ago) link

pic.twitter.com/JiTEHGZTZh

— Dirtybird Person (@atlfalcon89) July 24, 2023

Heh, Mr. X.

Up until recently reverse DNS records from Elon Musk's x[.]com pinged from an IP in Khabarovsk, Russia.

Connected to these records are a Chinese national known for his development of lithium ion batteries, and a company with servers in Russia called Fishnet Communications. pic.twitter.com/R6yKFaKW0r

— The Sparrow Project (@sparrowmedia) July 24, 2023

recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Monday, 24 July 2023 15:15 (nine months ago) link

twitter has gained my trust over the last few months and is now my bank

— rob (@OkButStill) July 23, 2023

xyzzzz__, Monday, 24 July 2023 15:15 (nine months ago) link

Love to change my business logo to something that can’t be trademarked which means anyone can legally use it for whatever they want

Elon "Graphic Design Is My Passion" Musk's logo for "X" is literally just Unicode Character “𝕏” (U+1D54F).

love the armchair designers and typographers crawling out of the woodwork here. "literally just Unicode Character “𝕏”" -- ok in what typeface ("font") would that unicode codepoint be rendered? as i type this right now, 𝕏 is being rendered in a sans-serif font that looks nothing like the new logo.

afaik typefaces are intellectual property so one cannot legally use it for whatever they want. also i joked earlier that it looks like the X11 and XE logo but it also kinda looks like the old xerox logo too. there's definitely precedent for simple, single letter trademarks

butch wig (diamonddave85), Monday, 24 July 2023 16:20 (nine months ago) link

lmao truth bomb
xpost

Tracer Hand, Monday, 24 July 2023 17:33 (nine months ago) link

Now when I tweet “I need a sugar daddy” I get direct deposit automatically set up.

JoeStork, Monday, 24 July 2023 17:36 (nine months ago) link

remember when he shot a car into space? that was cool

Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 24 July 2023 17:38 (nine months ago) link

remember when he shot a car into space? that was cool

Maybe we could try that again, but this time with him in the trunk.

but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 24 July 2023 17:39 (nine months ago) link

X marks the cock

Alba, Monday, 24 July 2023 18:17 (nine months ago) link

Hooboy

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/24/technology/twitter-x-elon-musk.html

The tech billionaire, who bought Twitter last year, renamed the social platform X.com on its website and started replacing the bird logo with a stylized version of the 24th letter of the Latin alphabet. Inside Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco, X logos were projected in the cafeteria, while conference rooms were renamed to words with X in them, including “eXposure,” “eXult” and “s3Xy,” according to photos seen by The New York Times.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 July 2023 19:07 (nine months ago) link

This feels like a hamfisted attempt evade a prophecy by loophole. "The third great Antichrist shall ruin a company named the name of twitter."

strike "the name of"

the favicon has been changed, btw

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 24 July 2023 19:30 (nine months ago) link

i think I shall delete my official twitter account, this is stupid. I'll keep my older shitposting one.

I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 24 July 2023 19:34 (nine months ago) link

I don't understand. Are you talking about your X account?

I wondering why my xs aren't getting much eXgagement, nor are people re-xing them. Maybe I need to sign up for x Blue.

More like ex-account, right?

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 July 2023 19:40 (nine months ago) link

mr musk sir please let me do online banking on the same website where people tell me to kill myself for my opinions on the band big thief thank you sir

— Dan Ozzi (@danozzi) July 24, 2023

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 24 July 2023 19:53 (nine months ago) link

American History X joke just too easy

Per a Bluesky post from someone there outside HQ here in SF: "twitter sign change isn’t going well. Building management called cops"

Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 July 2023 20:00 (nine months ago) link

lol

Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 24 July 2023 20:00 (nine months ago) link

"You're here to change the sign to an X? Likely story, buddy."

why would the cops care?

Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 24 July 2023 20:03 (nine months ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6cOLJkQlTc

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 July 2023 20:03 (nine months ago) link

Mods, please change the name of this thread to "X". Thank you.

il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 24 July 2023 20:07 (nine months ago) link

Since Elon is not paying rent, maybe they are trying to throw him out

Moritz von Oswald von Wolkenstein (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 24 July 2023 20:10 (nine months ago) link

I hate this app so much. This rebrand is awful. If you need to reach me, you can find me here engaging in content and regularly posting

— Amy Gaeta (@GaetaAmy) July 24, 2023

sean paul akerman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 24 July 2023 20:10 (nine months ago) link

nailed it

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 24 July 2023 20:17 (nine months ago) link

why would the cops care?

The sign itself is located right on the corner of the building next to a crosswalk, thus:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Twitter%27s_San_Francisco_Headquarters.jpg

What they're doing is taking the lettering off rather than the whole deal, but among other things they were doing they forgot to block off the area right below it where people are walking and, you know, not expecting a big metal letter to come crashing on their head. More here:

https://sfstandard.com/2023/07/24/twitter-sign-being-removed-downtown-san-francisco-office-x/

Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 July 2023 20:19 (nine months ago) link

An even more bizarre note via Bluesky: "An officer told me twitter’s security team wasn’t notified"

Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 July 2023 20:25 (nine months ago) link

Okay when your own city's public utilities commission roasts you

Twitter rebranding to X is like when wipes rebranded to "flushable" wipes.

— SF Water Power Sewer (@MySFPUC) July 24, 2023

Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 July 2023 20:30 (nine months ago) link

I’m a little baffled by the outrage, since Musk is overtly, transparently trying to tank the company. Shutting it down abruptly would create a unifying event which could drive users to another site, but this erosion and fuckery is Balkanising the community and dissipating any chance of a rebuild. The mystery is why, and my current guess is its utility as an unregulated news source.

assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 24 July 2023 20:47 (nine months ago) link

That makes sense but those people will just move to another site and when it gains critical momentum will become the de facto site for unregulated, real time news updates.

Dan Worsley, Monday, 24 July 2023 20:52 (nine months ago) link

He wanted to change Paypal's name to X a long time again. He's not trying to tank it. It's just his playground.

xp but the slow, messy death has avoided that because the user base are now scattered across BlueSky, Mastodon, Threads etc. and will not regroup. The systematic violation of the Twitter model means nobody will ever have the same naive belief in checkmarks etc. again, he’s salted the ground after burning the crops.

assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 24 July 2023 21:03 (nine months ago) link

This was seen in Chicago and a lot of people joked it was a dig at Musk:

https://preview.redd.it/pevxsgdthtdb1.jpg?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=e95fe616326a303791b78d0c090dcfbdd4f49940

(It was actually for Fragile X Syndrome Awareness Day, so consider me newly aware!)

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 July 2023 21:09 (nine months ago) link

Wait hold on

It appears Instagram and FB owner Meta holds the trademark for "X" as it relates to "online social networking services... social networking services in the fields of entertainment, gaming and application development..." https://t.co/vb2r67ZOzb

— Alex Weprin (@alexweprin) July 24, 2023

Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 July 2023 21:26 (nine months ago) link

That further link is legit BTW!

https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=87980831&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch

Ned Raggett, Monday, 24 July 2023 21:28 (nine months ago) link

Found this fascinating old article about trademarking a letter:

https://www.fastcompany.com/3042515/wtf-inside-the-wild-weird-world-of-trademarking-the-alphabet

One graf:

Single letters are among the most popular trademarks registered in the United States. Each letter of the alphabet has, at a minimum, hundreds of trademarks. There are, for example, over 2,000 trademarks of the letter S, making it the most popular. There are 1,102 Vs, 1,100 Es, and 1,816 As. Pity the lonely Y, with only 229. For comparison, other common words have far fewer marks: “me” has 97, “cat” has 72, and “extreme” has only 42.

Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 July 2023 21:42 (nine months ago) link

reminds me of a moment a few years ago when somebody tried to patent curry powder, because why not

Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 24 July 2023 21:47 (nine months ago) link

If Google is Alphabet, don't they own all the letters?

Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 24 July 2023 21:52 (nine months ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/UFNCjqs.png

lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 02:03 (nine months ago) link

I’m a little baffled by the outrage, since Musk is overtly, transparently trying to tank the company.

― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, July 24, 2023 4:47 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

nah hes just very bad at running the company

lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 02:04 (nine months ago) link

When incompetence becomes indistinguishable from sabotage.

truly an alltime business fail

lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 02:09 (nine months ago) link

its too bad hes gonna have to roll back the name change due to ip issues its such a perfect development

lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 02:12 (nine months ago) link

or maybe he refuses to roll it back and it becomes and even bigger snafu

lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 02:14 (nine months ago) link

he should play it hardcore is my suggestion

Clay, Tuesday, 25 July 2023 02:17 (nine months ago) link


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