The problem is, is that if you engage with anyone outside of the internet, they have no fucking idea what you’re talking about when you call it “X”.
It’s so fucking stupid of a name. Even worse than Facebook changing to Meta.
You can ask people to call it “X” all day, every day, but you can’t 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 don’t 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
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I think they DID buy xfinity, then used the name because they were done wiping their ass with “comcast”. I only say this because I distinctly remember having both xfinity and comcast showing up as internet options on some old house listings.
xfinity wasn’t an acquisition, it was just comcast rebranding trying to separate itself from the stank of comcast. It did occur during a time of acquisitions of other cable networks, but that’s been true of comcast for 15ish years. both domains still work for customers.
Ahhh, so it could’ve been a local acquisition changing their names on ads before Comcast finished the job, or maybe vice-versa somehow. Interesting.
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 – and there’s something I never thought I’d say – they changed the name of the company so that they could introduce new brands. They were not dumb enough to rebrand the successful products. It’s just now Facebook by Meta.
Oculus quest, though I guess it wasn’t actually a success
Oculus is by far an infinitely superior brand name
That I agree with
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 “x”. Megalomania seems like his brand, though, so no surprises there.
I’m just glad he’s not an American so he can’t become the next Trump.
Dude, don’t give them ideas.
When I go to x.com I end up on twitter.com
So Elon says it’s 𝕏 but my browser still says it’s Twitter
Wonder how much money he blew on that domain only to not even make it the canonical one.
He probably can’t change it without breaking something lol
Probably third party apps. Gotta keep those smart fridge Twitter clients running! Musk even memed about it a while back.
Since he tried to name PayPal X also, I’m assuming he’s has it forever. Like Bezos and relentless.com.
Even back then a single letter domain was probably worth tens of millions.
Maybe he’s just fixated on some sort of sunk cost fallacy. Now that he’s finally in control of another online service he feels he needs to use the domain he spent untold amounts of money on just so it didn’t seem like a waste.
No, he literally had to buy the domain back from Paypal in 2017. Paypal owned the domain for years, even after firing Elon in 2000 for trying to switch to it.
Funnier yet, when you go to https://𝕏.com you also end up on x.com which redirects to twitter.com.
That’s funny, when I do it I end up on nitter.net
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I personally prefer xitter, pronounced as shitter
GTA IV had a Tw@ Internet Cafe so I’ve always kind of thought of it like that.
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I’m partial to Twixxer myself
I like calling id xD
I’m so tired of these woke CEOs and their snowflake whining over misgendering their companies. There’s the name that a company is assigned at birth, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to change the way I’ve always called them (for my whole life and ALL of god-fearing Christian history) because some liberal snowflake CEO one-day wakes up and simply declares, “twitter is now X” ffs.
The facts of the
birthincorporation certificate, DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS little pissant mUsK… GET OVER IT!/s since satire is dead.
Mr. Pibb, Dr. Robotnik, Sierra Mist, I’m not using your woke “Pibb Extra, Dr. Eggman, Starry” nonsense!
Oh, that’s what that was about? I honestly just assumed Starry was some crap knock-off that the restaurant just happened to have that day. Not really sure what the motive would be or why they’d expect the reaction to rebranding a nearly 20yr old product would be any other assumption. I’m going to disagree with them. They should be glad I’m not calling them Sprite.
Yeah… I thought the same, that it was some knock-off company’s bootleg Sprite, wasn’t a very good idea, especially since the product packaging looks like Sprite’s
Ugh, it hurts that there are losers out there who say this shit unironically.
“The Chaser” is a satire site. You’re getting really angry over something that never happened.
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X post by user The Chaser @chaser reading: ‘Stop calling it Twitter’ says guy who deadnames his own child. Underneath is a photo of Elon Musk’s face with a barely visible Tesla logo in the background and the link to the article at chaser.com.au
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Good human.
Thank you, fellow human! 🤖
I think you may have misspelled tweet /s
Does Lemmy support alt text? I don’t remember seeing the option.
People usually put it in the post description below the image, from what I’ve seen.
The only thing that gets me hard is billionaires not getting their way.
So when you win the Powerball you’ll have to be a masochist to fuck?
If I win the Powerball I’ll be able to afford a good Dom.
Now the real paradox: if I can only cum when billionaires can’t get their way but I’m a billionaire and my mistress denies me orgasm, what happens? Does the universe implode on itself?
X is a fucking stupid name
No, X is a letter. But it doesn’t matter what you call a shitty product, it’s still a shitty product. I’ll also keep calling it twitter.
More Fun In The New World was great though.
Sure Elon, I can provide this service to you for just $8/month. It’s great value honestly, I have expenses to continue to run my life and just $8 will happily contribute towards that.
Double that and you can rest assured that the X I will pronounce will be verified to have come out of my own mouth. Not someone else’s, mine.
I’m bad at math, but Elon Musk is worth $229 billion dollars, which I think is enough to give every person on Earth $8 a month for a while.
If you call 3 months “a while”
I would, yes. You wouldn’t?
No, I wouldn’t call 3 instances of payment (for a total of $24), “a while”.
Okay, well maybe three months isn’t a while to you, but I think most people would consider a quarter of a year to be a while.
It would be one of the greatest redistributions of wealth ever, sadly.
lol so funny this guy thinks we’re just gonna stop calling it Twitter
Can I call it “Twatter” instead? It seems way more fitting.
Xitter with the ‘x’ pronounced as ‘sh’.
Xitler same pronunciation of x
“The Chaser” is a satire site. This never happened.
No. I’m exercising my Musk-given right of ultimate free speech and will continue calling it Twitter, just because I feel like it. Musk would be proud of me standing up against censorship. Oh wait…
… And all of this could have been avoided if he just renamed it “Twitter by X”, so make Twitter part of the X super-app that he wanted to build.
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… hold on this mf has TEN kids
which… one? we’re not talking about Grime’s baby are we?
Nope, Vivian Jenna Wilson, Musk’s adult daughter who changed her name and disowned him because of how he treated her as a trans person. Imagine how awful that must be to disassociate yourself from the richest man in the world.
Reminder that his response to this was “Can’t win 'em all”. Father of the year, no wonder he thinks his sperm is a gift from god.
And he should know since it’s his favorite drink.
Can we please stop calling unrealized gains holders the “richest in the world”? It’s patently untrue.
You’re basically forced to measure that as wealth. Otherwise we’re just pretending someone is poor just because they’re cash poor, yet I would argue that poor people have no real way to get 40 billion dollars to immediately lose money on a social media company.
Je named one of them like a fucking password!
And it wouldn’t even be a strong password
I believe she has two with Elon and (last time I checked which was awhile back) dating Chelsea Manning.
Legend says if you say Twitter 13 times inside of a Tesla at 4:20am, Elon Musk will appear inside the car
No. In fact we should continue to make fun of it. It’s stupid. Twitter was a hellsite before Elon. Now it’s dying due to his stupid decisions. He’s foing the things I used to joke about doing if i owned a website
I could call it that but then nobody would know what the fuck I’m talking about. Maybe at least pick a name that’s unique?
“I saw this tweet on ten today”
tweetX’cretion
Thank you, from now on that’s what I’m calling it: X-create, x-created, and x-creating all over the Internet.
Sounds like custom HTTP header names
X- prefixed http headers have been deprecated for more than a decade
Try to explain it to the 20 year old systems.
X-Non-Deprecated-Checkmate
Sounds like excrete
Xeet. Take it or leave it.
Was thinking instead of calling them tweets we should start calling them kisses
Don’t you try and fix Musk’s broken toys! That child needs to learn not to break them in the first place. (though not a bad salvage for x)
I have never twatted on twitter, so I wont kiss on ten either.
