when do we change the thread title
― c u (crüt), Friday, 28 July 2023 00:15 (nine months ago) link
we cant give into x
― lag∞n, Friday, 28 July 2023 00:20 (nine months ago) link
FKA Twitter
― dan selzer, Friday, 28 July 2023 01:04 (nine months ago) link
X, X, XAlexI'm your only friendX, X, XAlexYour love will sing for you
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 28 July 2023 01:17 (nine months ago) link
^Melody of Certain Damaged Elons
― jaymc, Friday, 28 July 2023 02:46 (nine months ago) link
can’t we just call it Twatter?
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 28 July 2023 03:38 (nine months ago) link
Amazing design - where I would normally click the top right of the embedded tweet to view on Twitter it’s now a black X that looks like I’m closing down the embed
― I am using your worlds, Friday, 28 July 2023 10:06 (nine months ago) link
kudos jaymc! :)
― NickB, Friday, 28 July 2023 12:25 (nine months ago) link
i think there's a middle ground between "he's deliberately trying to destroy it" and "he genuinely thinks these are good ideas, i.e. he is stupid". it's not that he's trying to destroy it. it's that he's trying to erase the original twitter as a cultural force while also buying a ~media property for the usual reasons rich people buy media properties.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 29 July 2023 04:09 (nine months ago) link
Deleted it off my phone before the app update pushed the new icon on me
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 29 July 2023 09:01 (nine months ago) link
I just haven't updated it yet.
― pplains, Saturday, 29 July 2023 13:19 (nine months ago) link
Matt Binder’s read on it is that Elon’s motives change, where some points he wants to destroy it just as a laugh, other days he wants to make it work and become his stupid dream platform.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Saturday, 29 July 2023 13:51 (nine months ago) link
i think he just thinks all his thoughts are good and will work so if he hates twitter and wants to destroy it thats good and will work, as will prioritizing blue checks in replies and so forth
― lag∞n, Saturday, 29 July 2023 14:13 (nine months ago) link
work in the sense of being a business success
― lag∞n, Saturday, 29 July 2023 14:24 (nine months ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F2Lbd_2WAAAUEGv?format=jpg&name=medium
The X logo has officially been placed on the former Twitter building. pic.twitter.com/7ewawmLcJ1— Pop Base (@PopBase) July 28, 2023
― lag∞n, Saturday, 29 July 2023 14:25 (nine months ago) link
It's kind of amazing how pervasive Twitter is as a brand, and how stupid it is to abandon that. It would be like Kleenex changing its name. Like, everything from major companies and the government to local businesses use and associate with Twitter. Is, like, the TSA, or McDonald's or the flower shop down the street really expected to change all their internet and social media presence to reflect Musk's silliness? I just don't see it, and assume many or even most are either ignoring it or oblivious.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 29 July 2023 14:25 (nine months ago) link
Jeez, that’s one shoddy looking thing for a global bra.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 29 July 2023 14:35 (nine months ago) link
Brand :-)
we're global, bra(h)!
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Saturday, 29 July 2023 14:36 (nine months ago) link
It’s run by a big tit, so maybe not so wrong.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 29 July 2023 14:39 (nine months ago) link
― Moritz von Oswald von Wolkenstein (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 29 July 2023 15:26 (nine months ago) link
looks like the propeller from a toy helicopter
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Saturday, 29 July 2023 15:28 (nine months ago) link
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/718mHa9HoDL._AC_SL1500_.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 29 July 2023 15:29 (nine months ago) link
Looks like it's going to topple over in the first high wind
― moribund new dance craze (Matt #2), Saturday, 29 July 2023 15:29 (nine months ago) link
Well it is only an interim logo.
― nashwan, Saturday, 29 July 2023 15:36 (nine months ago) link
The alternate definition of the verb, ‘tweet’, as in, ‘to make a posting on the Twitter online message service’, is in the actual dictionary. No other social media app has anything like it. Imagine disposing of that level of brand recognition because of a mid-life crisis. https://t.co/5gcs3dOLR8— Jools Evelyn (@joolsevelyn) July 29, 2023
― lag∞n, Saturday, 29 July 2023 15:42 (nine months ago) link
meme master x
Found pic of 𝕏 landlord in San Francisco pic.twitter.com/3CKSAr9ek2— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 29, 2023
― lag∞n, Saturday, 29 July 2023 15:45 (nine months ago) link
My wife, who is in advertising and marketing, thinks this name change is magnitudes stupider than HBO going Max.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 29 July 2023 15:45 (nine months ago) link
So amazing how Elon doesn’t understand humor. I can’t even tell what the joke is here.
― Moritz von Oswald von Wolkenstein (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 29 July 2023 15:56 (nine months ago) link
I wonder if he thinks that changing the name of the company means that the contracts with landlords and vendors are no longer valid. Tbf, this is something that has worked in other industries to hold up payouts or evade creditors, so….
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Saturday, 29 July 2023 15:59 (nine months ago) link
lol my god
I would be fucking LIVID. Imagine this fucking X sign right across from your bedroom. #x #twitter pic.twitter.com/FH4nqcS8oy— fuck elon musk (@itsmefrenchy123) July 29, 2023
― lag∞n, Saturday, 29 July 2023 17:28 (nine months ago) link
the city is already investigating this as he appeared to not bother with a permit
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Saturday, 29 July 2023 17:32 (nine months ago) link
^^^ oh surprise, surprise
― Moritz von Oswald von Wolkenstein (Boring, Maryland), Saturday, 29 July 2023 17:59 (nine months ago) link
fbi needs to raid the twitter compound
― lag∞n, Saturday, 29 July 2023 18:02 (nine months ago) link
James Fallows has taken to calling it Xitter, which I assume is pronounced "shitter."
― jaymc, Saturday, 29 July 2023 19:03 (nine months ago) link
again, making the most transparent and obvious choices to tank the company. A strobe light blasting a residential building.
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 29 July 2023 19:14 (nine months ago) link
i dont get why everything is 5d chess explanation thing with him, we cant it be just be that musk is stupid
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Saturday, 29 July 2023 19:18 (nine months ago) link
He really is the most embarrassing person on the planet
― omar little, Saturday, 29 July 2023 19:30 (nine months ago) link
xp "why cant it just be..."
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Saturday, 29 July 2023 19:38 (nine months ago) link
Imagine no more. This is my life now. https://t.co/k5QfAm8yuG pic.twitter.com/e7ECCM2NUD— Christopher J. Beale (@realchrisjbeale) July 29, 2023
― lag∞n, Saturday, 29 July 2023 19:47 (nine months ago) link
citizen xane
― slai gorgeous-alexander (m bison), Saturday, 29 July 2023 19:56 (nine months ago) link
This is what a poster looks like.
Deeply excited to embarrass my 26-year-old self tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/Wx7vQNUOhN— Becky Hammer (@beckyhammer) July 28, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 29 July 2023 23:18 (nine months ago) link
lol
― lag∞n, Sunday, 30 July 2023 01:25 (nine months ago) link
i will never post on "X"
― ciderpress, Sunday, 30 July 2023 01:31 (nine months ago) link
aw, becky hammer. <3 i don't really know who she is, but she followed me and i was always happy to see her.
― jaymc, Sunday, 30 July 2023 03:24 (nine months ago) link
just hope you dont get too much wind i guess
Elon Musk’s giant X logo on top of the building formerly known as Twitter HQ…appears to be held up by sandbags pic.twitter.com/dLtPpekpXr— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) July 30, 2023
― lag∞n, Sunday, 30 July 2023 16:44 (nine months ago) link
since it's made out of Lego Technics pieces it can't weigh much so I'm not worried
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Sunday, 30 July 2023 16:47 (nine months ago) link
lol i just remembered i dremt it was struck by lightning and the entire building burned down
― mark s, Sunday, 30 July 2023 16:52 (nine months ago) link
imagine if you died because you were walking along the street and you the giant X that Elon Musk put on top of twitter HQ fell on top of you, it would be so embarrassing
― he thinks it's chinese money (soref), Sunday, 30 July 2023 17:15 (nine months ago) link
im sure its fine
X / Twitter won't let city building inspectors check out the giant X logo on the roof of their HQinspectors have been denied access for the past two days upon visiting to inspect the structure https://t.co/bqc1JXuUbn pic.twitter.com/93R0bieIfs— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) July 30, 2023
― lag∞n, Sunday, 30 July 2023 18:57 (nine months ago) link