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
they just don't want the inspector to waste time inspecting something that's 100% up to code
― official representative of Roku's Basketshit in at least one alternate u (lukas), Sunday, 30 July 2023 19:17 (nine months ago) link
structural engineering is famously superfluous
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Sunday, 30 July 2023 21:52 (nine months ago) link
so X/Twitter just reinstated Kanye and is starting to ban ads that attack Republicans, seems like a bad sign for the brand that even *I* didn't know about this until a couple days after the fact
― frogbs, Monday, 31 July 2023 01:50 (nine months ago) link
I think it’s time reputable news, journalists, writers, and politicians delete their profiles. They aren’t all on Truth Social. Most of them are now on threads anyway and the savvy ones are on mastodon. Blue sky should probably open up too.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 31 July 2023 03:11 (nine months ago) link
Wonder if that X is made of carbon fiber
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 31 July 2023 03:24 (nine months ago) link
So, dumb question, but is the whole “clueless billionaire’s vanity project” aspect of the Twitter takeover just a front for Elon’s backers buying influence over our political discourse and/or attempting to destroy an avenue of free speech which was increasingly seen as a threat?
― epistantophus, Monday, 31 July 2023 03:27 (nine months ago) link
its amazing how "is he tanking Twitter on purpose" has come up every week since he bought it
I do think there may be an ulterior motive for the name change. I believe his legal team is gonna try some shit. but really if you follow this guy at all you'd know these are just the kinds of ideas he has. he never says anything smart
― frogbs, Monday, 31 July 2023 03:50 (nine months ago) link
not tanking, hasn't said "trust the process" yet
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Monday, 31 July 2023 03:51 (nine months ago) link
Im not sure he has “backers” in that sense but he has supporters of wealth and influence, I suppose. But I think this was opportunistic of them or just the obvious end result of the actions taken so far. You could pose the same question about Trump. Manipulated fool or Machiavelli? It’s somewhere in between.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 31 July 2023 03:51 (nine months ago) link
the fact that he tried to change paypals name to x makes me think he just really likes it and also has been waiting 20 years to use the domain
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 July 2023 03:52 (nine months ago) link
yeah I mean if the scheme was to kill Twitter by implementing ideas that are completely in character for Elon Musk I'd actually tip my cap to that
― frogbs, Monday, 31 July 2023 03:58 (nine months ago) link
what really disturbing is the fact that hes been so successful, by one important measure the most successful, to this point while doing this type of shit
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 July 2023 04:05 (nine months ago) link
space x just blew up a rocket and a landing pad trashing the local environment because he felt like it wasnt necessary to build the proper infrastructure, tesla makes shitty cars which he constantly lies about, the tunnel company was purely a pr gambit to sabotage public tanspo, hes got another company devoted to torturing monkeys
― lag∞n, Monday, 31 July 2023 04:12 (nine months ago) link
right I mean I think big tech companies do dumb shit all the time but a lot of times those ideas actually wind up being successful or at least not hurting their bottom line so I have to say "well ok maybe I'm wrong and just don't understand this". but 90% of Elon's ideas are just plain idiotic and/or unworkable, and with Twitter we're finally seeing how bad things get when he's actually able to unilaterally make decisions. so yeah the fact that he's been so successful can only mean that either our system is deeply fucked up to the point where a random nepo baby who gets lucky with investments can become one of the most powerful men in the world, either that or objective reality just doesn't exist
― frogbs, Monday, 31 July 2023 04:27 (nine months ago) link
How quickly we forgot all the lawsuits and bullshit over the Tesla solar roofs, the SolarCity fiasco, etc. etc. etc.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 31 July 2023 08:16 (nine months ago) link