This is an interesting sabotage to any figures that want to maintain their presence.
If you search for “brandname twitter”, you’re probably going to get what you want. “brandname x” will be a SEO catastrophe.
Maybe they hoped to drive people to navigate through their own site and search facilities, but generally, not being where people are looking is a terrible strategy even on a chain of bad strategies.
Corporations just seem to be getting more and more abstract… Here’s my ✨ amazing ✨ (non-complete) list:
- Oversimplification of logos (*cough* *cough* Firefox killing our fox)
- Corporate Memphis (that big tech, supper flat, indestiguishable art style)
- Websites (everything is either a bento box, image carousel, or loaded up with scroll-based animations – or all of these)
- Names (Facebook is now Meta, Twitter is becoming X)
I think he mistakenly referred to the firefox group of things like the password manager, the browser still has the fox logo
Corporate Memphis is just the worst. I dunno why but it gives me heavy dystopian connotations.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becoming_X
Appropriate that this album is from the late 90s, which is when the X name would have actually been cool.
The google redesign was the worst. I still haven’t gotten used to it and doubt I ever will.
These design examples are really interesting to me. I would hazard a guess that these types of designs are only popular right now because they are common among rapid design software packages/subscriptions used by companies who don’t want to hire real designers. I don’t think the styles are inherently bad but they certainly are lazy.
You must have missed this…
X was ahead of the game, but now everyone is quickly jumping onboard. I’ll be changing my username to ‘s’ as soon as I finish typing this. /s
Just pronounce it like we would pronounce a Chinese name, where the X are pronounced sh
Twitter -> Xitter [shitter]
It’s a Roman numeral for me…
- Ten-Men
- SpaceTen
- The Ten Factor
- Tenbox Series Ten
- Mac OS Ten
Although Mac OS X was used as a roman numeral when it first launched. It lost all meaning when they added the code names to it.
@BudgetBandit @samsy, it is not an X, when designing the logo he only thought that by drawing another one at a right angle at each end of the line, it would have been too obvious.
He actually tried backing out of the deal, but it was already too far to do so when he realised it wasn’t a good deal at all…
If the buzz doesn’t translate to (paying) users or ad views he doesn’t profit shit from it.
The any publicity is good publicity mindset really is gone after you are already a household name. Twitter was already in the news daily, Journalism was replaced with 300 “Celebrity/politician tweeted ______”, and half the time all research and studies being replaced with 10 random tweets. “People are outraged about X, here’s 10 tweets from random people to prove it”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System see logo and name in case not familiar with the context
If X is no longer twitter, how long till the copyright on the twitter brand expires?
You can’t argue anyone would confuse a website called twitter with ‘X’.
Maybe Zuckerberg could rebrand threads Twitter.
There’s a similar law where you must at least defend a trademark against misuse to keep hold of it. That was the reasoning behind this music video for Velcro:
So, based on that, maybe they won’t lose it just by not using it. But if someone else tried to establish a Twitter product, they may lose the trademark if they don’t fight it.
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