Twitter C/D

X is such a cool letter

i love x

He really hates designers

Social media billionaire says if a good enough logo is ‘posted tonight, we’ll make (it) go live worldwide tomorrow’

Fitting with his big divorced guy energy to be obsessed with his X

Maybe he’ll change his name to John Doe.

Peep his convo / and add "X" to his logo

X gonna tweet it to ya

The stink of rotten X.

Repentant thief here: bsky-social-3fb72-re2vt

Didn’t really see Musk as an X-Men stan

x.com

he really is going to kill the brand isn't he ?

When the digs had killed the man
He had to break up the brand

Elon's wet dream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNKJ4SPj_Rw

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.

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayacc) July 23, 2023

Blink twice if you're in trouble.

In 2000, Elon Musk tried to rebrand PayPal as https://t.co/BBM8GTWvT5, but was forced out by the board and replaced as CEO by Peter Thiel.

Now he’s doing the same to Twitter, but is surrounded by sycophants who can’t tell him it’s a bad idea.

Read more: https://t.co/rZGze8niM6 pic.twitter.com/f7vAENrUhf

— Paris Marx (@parismarx) July 23, 2023

Ha that question mark is an artifact of cleaning up the URL

Honestly just waiting for a couple of weeks for him to rebrand Twitter Blue as Triple X.

He's just going to join the punk band

Oh I'm sure Billy would be happy to have him.

Back in 1993 I co-founded a company that become known as XE, an extremely popular currency site and app. This was our logo from 1993 to 2007. Perhaps it looks familiar. pic.twitter.com/4suVghuPmp

— Steven Dengler 🌻 (@Dracogen) July 23, 2023

Billy Xoom

Perhaps it looks familiar

yeah it looks like the X11 logo

[mista dobalina voice] linda yaccarino

— willy 🌜💧 (@willystaley) July 23, 2023

the site fucking sucks now. most of the good posters are gone, I'm getting bot followers and spam messages constantly, there's a million ads for boner pills, and the blue check shit has made it so all the top replies are cringey as hell. also the timeline seems to be consistently broken so it's not even good for sports anymore. I don't even see the replies I get half the time because notifications are also busted. I just cannot imagine anyone continuing to use this place after it's called "X" or whatever

I’m pretty tired of seeing the blue chew ad where the guy fucks the giant titty lady so hard that she needs a walker, but I’m not logging off any time soon

. . . idk man i just see cheech & chong

TS

I wonder if they'll change the favicon or leave it as is so people can see which tab is the twitter tab

lol clicking the wrong x

Someone described it as the sans-serif swastika which I can’t unsee

IIRC the number one rule for any internet rebranding is 'make it impossible to Google'

No need to Google something if it will connect us all in ways we’re just beginning to imagine.

It has come to my attention that the person who submitted this logo to Elon Musk may have not acquired the proper license to use Special Alphabets 4 in a logo for a website with a large userbase. pic.twitter.com/7sFuexEqg5

— Fontendo (@Fontendou) July 24, 2023

I don't think I've seen it mentioned here so far but (related to Google) there's only so many companies that get to become a verb and it's quite something to see someone intentionally take an axe to one of them.

Are people sending Xs now?

Lots of takes on where this shit comes from.

Love to change my business logo to something that can’t be trademarked which means anyone can legally use it for whatever they want https://t.co/IDbSx5k8ag

— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) July 24, 2023

This thread is now reading like a late 60s new wave SF novel set in, er, the mid-2020s. Maybe Thomas Disch was onto something?

changing your website name to X is possibly the most edgy-14-year-old-boy thing he's done so far, and that’s really saying something

TBH reading about it itt I honestly thought this was just another 'coked out of his mind @ 3 AM' idea Musk pulled out of his ass with no intention of ever following through on. But wow, look at that, kudos.

Someone (a lot of someones) should tell him to stop fucking around and just change the site to x.xxx already

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/Inxs_X.jpg

x more like gen x

He should change the name to "Ecks vs Sever."

Can't wait for Musk to start suing everyone who was using X before him.

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

once again On Cinema predicted this

https://i.imgur.com/y9TH7Nk.jpg

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."

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

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

— rob (@OkButStill) July 23, 2023

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