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
― frogbs, Monday, 24 July 2023 03:28 (ten months ago) link
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
― sean paul akerman (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 24 July 2023 06:14 (ten months ago) link
. . . idk man i just see cheech & chong
― mookieproof, Monday, 24 July 2023 07:49 (ten months ago) link
TS
― the best minds of my generation destroyed by woke (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 24 July 2023 09:12 (ten months ago) link
I wonder if they'll change the favicon or leave it as is so people can see which tab is the twitter tab
― anvil, Monday, 24 July 2023 09:56 (ten months ago) link
lol clicking the wrong x
― nashwan, Monday, 24 July 2023 10:00 (ten months ago) link
Someone described it as the sans-serif swastika which I can’t unsee
― stet, Monday, 24 July 2023 10:25 (ten months ago) link
IIRC the number one rule for any internet rebranding is 'make it impossible to Google'
― Why Rashomoff? Rashomon! (Old Lunch), Monday, 24 July 2023 11:23 (ten months ago) link
No need to Google something if it will connect us all in ways we’re just beginning to imagine.
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 24 July 2023 11:41 (ten months ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 24 July 2023 11:44 (ten months ago) link
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.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 24 July 2023 11:46 (ten months ago) link
Are people sending Xs now?
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Monday, 24 July 2023 11:55 (ten months ago) link
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
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 24 July 2023 12:03 (ten months ago) link
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?
― The Fifth Roommate (Matt #2), Monday, 24 July 2023 12:06 (ten months ago) link
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
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 24 July 2023 12:17 (ten months ago) link
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
― Why Rashomoff? Rashomon! (Old Lunch), Monday, 24 July 2023 12:38 (ten months ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/Inxs_X.jpg
― the pinefox, Monday, 24 July 2023 12:49 (ten months ago) link
x more like gen x
― lag∞n, Monday, 24 July 2023 13:01 (ten months ago) link
He should change the name to "Ecks vs Sever."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 July 2023 13:22 (ten months ago) link
Can't wait for Musk to start suing everyone who was using X before him.
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Monday, 24 July 2023 14:06 (ten months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuJroujjYDk
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 July 2023 14:10 (ten months ago) link
once again On Cinema predicted this
https://i.imgur.com/y9TH7Nk.jpg
― frogbs, Monday, 24 July 2023 14:14 (ten months ago) link
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 (ten months ago) link
pic.twitter.com/JiTEHGZTZh— Dirtybird Person (@atlfalcon89) July 24, 2023
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Monday, 24 July 2023 14:43 (ten months ago) link
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 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten months ago) link
lmao truth bombxpost
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 24 July 2023 17:33 (ten 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 (ten months ago) link
remember when he shot a car into space? that was cool
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 24 July 2023 17:38 (ten months ago) link
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 (ten months ago) link
X marks the cock
― Alba, Monday, 24 July 2023 18:17 (ten 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 (ten 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."
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Monday, 24 July 2023 19:18 (ten months ago) link
strike "the name of"
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Monday, 24 July 2023 19:19 (ten months ago) link
the favicon has been changed, btw
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 24 July 2023 19:30 (ten 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 (ten months ago) link
I don't understand. Are you talking about your X account?
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Monday, 24 July 2023 19:34 (ten months ago) link
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.
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Monday, 24 July 2023 19:36 (ten months ago) link
More like ex-account, right?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 July 2023 19:40 (ten 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 (ten months ago) link
https://www.musicmagpie.co.uk/store/spree/products/2950925/product/mus000456731.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 24 July 2023 19:55 (ten months ago) link
American History X joke just too easy
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Monday, 24 July 2023 19:56 (ten months ago) link
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 (ten months ago) link
lol
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 24 July 2023 20:00 (ten months ago) link
"You're here to change the sign to an X? Likely story, buddy."
― hardcore technician gimmicks are also another popular choice f (President Keyes), Monday, 24 July 2023 20:01 (ten months ago) link
why would the cops care?
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 24 July 2023 20:03 (ten months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6cOLJkQlTc
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 24 July 2023 20:03 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten months ago) link