This rebranding is so cringe it hurts to watch.
Elon Musk | Owner of X
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Can’t he just get the local 13 year old high school kids to sort it?
All you need to know is this;
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Shit... This is like Cicada 3301, but stupid.
it's now X. He's made reference to tweets being called "X's" and thus tweeting is "X'ing" and so on
He's basically trying to force "western wechat" on everyone. He claims this is part of a shift to essentially having your entire life in one app. So twitter/GPay/Apple Pay/Ebay/Alibaba etc all on one site/app.
Soo if I want to send an X to my X for some XXX
What a fecking moron. Unbelievable that the richest man on earth is that dumb.it's now X. He's made reference to tweets being called "X's" and thus tweeting is "X'ing" and so on
He's basically trying to force "western wechat" on everyone. He claims this is part of a shift to essentially having your entire life in one app. So twitter/GPay/Apple Pay/Ebay/Alibaba etc all on one site/app.
Its all named after his son, right?
I was really confused when I came into this thread and realised you're all talking about X. We need a title change ASAP.
I never thought I'd root for Zuckerberg as hard as I am, but here we are.
Ah, so its like reddit coins.
I hate twitter so much it's just full of conspiracy nutjobs now who can never admit to being wrong.
They have gone from believing jamie foxx is now a clone since they got that wrong to the predictable Shaka Hislop is now a victim of the vaccine as aparrently noone ever fainted before the vaccine especially in extreme heat.
No doubt he is now a clone as he is fine again
They have gone from believing jamie foxx is now a clone since they got that wrong to the predictable Shaka Hislop is now a victim of the vaccine as aparrently noone ever fainted before the vaccine especially in extreme heat.
No doubt he is now a clone as he is fine again
Nah, he's been obsessed with the letter for decades. He founded x.com as a PayPal-esque service that then merged with PayPal, he wanted to rebrand it all to x.com and was kicked off the board. Obviously he's got spaceX too, and now he's decided to bring back x.com to replace twitter
Where are all the cowards here on this forum who believe the vaccine is dangerous? I know there are some out there.
Has this rebrand broken embeds? All I see is 'Loading Tweet'.
Not the point, but x.com was just an online bank of sorts. Confinity (Thiel and gang), who they merged with and became PayPal, was a broader company, and in the end they ditched everything except the actual product PayPal that Confinity had already launched before Musk got involved.
So he wanted to rebrand the thing that wasn't even an idea he'd had then? Classic Muxk
Sort of. x.com and Confinity had some overlap, but they ditched everything from x.com and most from Confinity, so there is nothing from him in the company except a failed name change, a failed switch to Windows, and money.
So are we supposed to call his site kiss now? Cute.
The engagement on threads has not kept up after the initial euphoria. It will likely require another global downtime for Twitter to get some spark again. So let's what stupid thing Elon does next.
That’s shocking. You have so much brand recognition when it comes to aspects like tweeting, it’s going to be a nightmare to get this to properly stick. Hard to imagine this being implemented in a manner which isn’t really clunky and clumsy as well.it's now X. He's made reference to tweets being called "X's" and thus tweeting is "X'ing" and so on
He's basically trying to force "western wechat" on everyone. He claims this is part of a shift to essentially having your entire life in one app. So twitter/GPay/Apple Pay/Ebay/Alibaba etc all on one site/app.
It doesn’t seem like a very comfortable name either. Instead of posting some tweets on Twitter, or tweeting some tweets on Twitter, it’s going to be “X’ing some X’s on X”
Even better. Leave the platform.
It’s super fecking weird that they’ve changed the logo, but kept pretty much all of the other elements of the visual identity. Same color scheme that you associate with the old logo and everything.
This is pretty much the opposite of how you’d ideally do a rebranding.
This is pretty much the opposite of how you’d ideally do a rebranding.
There are 3 major twitter-like apps and they all suck for 3 very different reasons. Bluesky is filled with the worst stereotypes of SJWs, Threads has a lot of censorship and a ton of ads/sponsored type stuff,
Welcome to X. Now this is how you do a rebranding:
That is just plain lazy. Genius my ....
I still call snickers, marathons.
I doubt I am alone. Good luck getting 'x' to happen.
I doubt I am alone. Good luck getting 'x' to happen.
vscode => find and replace => “Tweets” => “Xs” => “Are you sure you want to change 1617 instances in 311 files?” => Click “Yes” => commit => Merge into mainWelcome to X. Now this is how you do a rebranding:
They have just changed the logo, right?
So he's really going for it, isn't he?
Almost feels like they did it on a whim, without any real planning
“X” is also a bit cringe in that he must think it sounds really cool.
I had a bunch of X’s in my old gamer tag when I was like 14. I thought it was badass, the X stood for extreme
I had a bunch of X’s in my old gamer tag when I was like 14. I thought it was badass, the X stood for extreme
I assume this is about consolidating everything under a brand identity.
SpaceX and TwitterX first. Possibly TeslaX at some point in the future. A bit like the way Apple have done with the letter "i" at the beginning of all their product names.
SpaceX and TwitterX first. Possibly TeslaX at some point in the future. A bit like the way Apple have done with the letter "i" at the beginning of all their product names.
Is he still not paying rent for Twitter's office or something like that? I swear Musk gets away with a lot of shenanigans that you never hear of again.
Sorts your constipation right out.
I knew I've seen that before:
Hoping Bill Gates is still around.
Hoping Bill Gates is still around.
This feels like a trump style implementation. Idea hatched on a Monday, coded on Tuesday, launched on Wednesday. About five people involved in total. Reminds me of Giuliani's press conference at the Four Seasons Total Landscaping office, spouting utter nonsense to boot.
This is such a shitty rebranding. Forget the idea itself being shitty, they announced the change and implemented overnight and then did nothing except change the logo, have x.com redirect to twitter and have Musk make a nonsensical announcement about how x is the imperfection of us all.
I think this is probably the most amateurish feat Musk has pulled yet, which is saying something.
This is such a shitty rebranding. Forget the idea itself being shitty, they announced the change and implemented overnight and then did nothing except change the logo, have x.com redirect to twitter and have Musk make a nonsensical announcement about how x is the imperfection of us all.
I think this is probably the most amateurish feat Musk has pulled yet, which is saying something.
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