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Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears (www.theverge.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 289 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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…

[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I fully expect people to still be calling it twitter for a long time.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I call it "irrelevant."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wish...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

I may…

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's because it's an established brand with a huge value to it. Everyone knows twitter. Only an idiot would throw that away.

[–] G_Wash1776 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Musk has been on a roll of bad decisions since he first offered to buy Twitter lmao

[–] Decimit 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He was making terrible decisions way before that.

[–] G_Wash1776 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yes but Twitter is a 44 billion dollar mistake

[–] Decimit 7 points 2 years ago

You make a very good and very expensive point.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I call meta still facebook. fuck this rebranding bullshit to disssociate with shittyness

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Snapchat isn't owned by meta btw

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Yeah just like Meta will allways be Facebook for me

[–] LEDZeppelin 49 points 2 years ago

I bet you all next he will rebrand some of his other companies as ‘S’ (SpaceX?) and ‘E’ (??) just to be CEO of SEX. This man is so extremely childish.

He already has done it for Tesla models: S, 3, X, Y

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

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[–] TheSilentOne59 1 points 2 years ago

This is perfect

[–] Decimit 7 points 2 years ago

You just nailed Elons personality.

[–] nostalgicgamerz 3 points 2 years ago

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