The problem is, is that if you engage with anyone outside of the internet, they have no fucking idea what youโre talking about when you call it โXโ.
Itโs so fucking stupid of a name. Even worse than Facebook changing to Meta.
You can ask people to call it โXโ all day, every day, but you canโt just change the name of your brand/product to a single letter, that people use every day for other things, and expect it to work out for you.
Facebook the product is still Facebook. The only name that changed was that of the company that owns Facebook, which makes sense as that holding company also runs other products like Instagram.
Google made a similar move in 2015 when it created Alphabet to hold the non Google parts of Google.
In both cases the renaming was on the coorporate side. They made no effort to loose the old trademark, and continue to operate under it today.
The only high profile case that comes to mind that is simmilar to Twitter is when Comcast rebranded itself as Xfinity in 2010. In that case, it worked because: A) Comcasts reputation was way worse than Twitters and B) people donโt have that much of an option anyway. In the otherhand, the rebranding failed in the sense that everyone still knows them as Comcast.
I honestly thought Comcast just bought xfinity at some point. Also fuck xfinity
I think they DID buy xfinity, then used the name because they were done wiping their ass with โcomcastโ. I only say this because I distinctly remember having both xfinity and comcast showing up as internet options on some old house listings.
Largely true but as a small aside, Google is still a company (within Alphabet). Alphabet is purely a corporate structure, and all branding still has Google on it. Whereas Facebook is now only a product, Meta is the company brand with its own logo and products named directly after it (like Meta Quest).
In defense of Zuckerberg โ and thereโs something I never thought Iโd say โ they changed the name of the company so that they could introduce new brands. They were not dumb enough to rebrand the successful products. Itโs just now Facebook by Meta.
That was totally his idea, the idea of a fucking imbecile, I bet he fired the entire PR and marketing departments, because he thinks he knows better.
An imbecile narcissist. He probably thought he could literally take over the mindshare of โxโ. Megalomania seems like his brand, though, so no surprises there.
Iโm just glad heโs not an American so he canโt become the next Trump.
