Such a genuinely shit name.
I’m not even one of the rabid Musk haters, but it’s just an absolutely dreadful name that a 10 year old thinks is cool…
That’s because it’s an established brand with a huge value to it. Everyone knows twitter. Only an idiot would throw that away.
Musk has been on a roll of bad decisions since he first offered to buy Twitter lmao
I call meta still facebook. fuck this rebranding bullshit to disssociate with shittyness
Meta/Facebook and Google/Alphabet are very different from Twitter/X. The first two created parent companies under which their large brand names still exist, but are now managed along with their other properties (Instagram, Snapchat, Waymo, Deepmind, etc.) Musk, meanwhile, is trying to completely burn down the Twitter brand for some incomprehensible reason.
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“We’re expect folks will go along and stop referring to ‘tweeting’ and go with the more brand appropriate term of ‘x-creting’ from now on.” Musk said before adding, "‘X-cretions’ and ‘x-creted’ are encouraged too.
idk if you came up with this but I expect to see this joke a bunch more in the coming days lol
You’ll remember that name, because the moment the site appears, you’ll click the little X on the top right corner of your computer screen to get rid of it.
I took it for a spin.
- x.com
- Do you want to sign in with Google? -> press X
- Sign in on Twitter -> press X
- 404 page not found -> press X on tab
It’s anything but inconsistent.
It’s called X now.… proceeds to prompt “log in to twitter”.
This is becoming a branding shit show.
Musk doesn’t seem to understand the concept of a developmental environment prior to a production launch.
It’s ok, at least it’s just a website. Would be different if he was designing something like… oh idk… a car that people trust with their lives to drive itself. Or even a massive rocket carrying astronauts and valuable cargo.
Do the “twitter videos” become “x videos” now?
They suspended xvideos.com’s account and the rumor is they are considering calling the videos on their platform xvideos… I REALLY REALLY want this to happen.
I want to see the ensuing trademark lawsuit from the owners of xvideo.com
Don’t bet on it. Twitter doesn’t have to host anyone it doesn’t want. TOS and all that.
