#𝕏

[pastellich]

For the man who's had just one idea

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

Every decision Elon musk makes and every announcement he makes about twitter on twitter sounds like something Wheatley would do in charge or Aperture Science

[acatnamedafteradog]

Tweetfur getting a rebrand by Spuydjeks

Source on twitter 𝕏 and furaffinity

[deadgodjess]

It's really funny how Twitter is rolling out this rebranding on like, a design level, outside of just Elon's whole man-baby routine.

They didn't have a new logo created, they're just using a Unicode 𝕏, it's for math. It can't be trademarked because it's not a distinct logo so they have 0 control over how, if, or when people use their branding on other sites, which is just an insane situation for a major social media company to create for themselves.

Search engine optimization. You are a major social media company, you want to be THE PLACE people go for social media, news, etc, right? Well, good luck chucklefuck, because while X is the top search result, it's also the ONLY one on the first page (on duckduckgo) that refers to the social media site. Search Twitter and it's the entire front page of search results including news articles and Wiki articles about the social media site.

Association with porn. X-[anything] sounds like a porn site and XVideo IS a porn site. That's what you're contending with, and while I personally don't believe there's anything inherently shameful with close proximity to porn, on a professional level most companies are going to notice that and have to seriously consider if they want refer people to their X Account to see their X Posts on their X Feed and you see what I'm getting at here? Which then gets into...

The sheer brand recognition of the Twitter name. There is NO other social media site with the kind of brand recognition that Twitter has. Zuck would sell his right nut for the kind of brand recognition Twitter has. They have their own word for posts! Facebook doesn't have that! Reddit and Tumblr don't have that! Myspace and LiveJournal and Xanga also never had that! All for the far more generic 𝕏. No one's Booking on FB or Ditting on Reddit or w/e. But on Twitter they be Tweeting. Saying you tweeted someone tells people EXACTLY what site you were on immediately. Now they're what, X-posting? Well that's short for "cross-post". Posting on X? Looks like you're being vague about what site you were using on purpose. "I @'d [so-and-so] on X" doesn't have the same ring it, either.

They didn't make all their rebranding decisions BEFORE announcing and rolling out the rebrand, so now we have a site called 𝕏 with a LOT of the on site references to the site itself and it's features still called Twitter [thing] and you still post using a button that says "Tweet" (as of 7.29.23) and they JUST settled on a word to replace that with. USUALLY when a company is doing a rebranding, especially one with the kinds of resources Twitter has available, they plan it all out well in advance and do the roll out all at once rather than this hodgepodge thing that's going on. This is a big one and I don't think Elon understands how unprofessional this looks. This doesn't look like the work of a team of skilled, experienced web developers, designers and marketers. This looks like a site being ran on a shoe-string budget ran by a disorganized child making decisions on a whim.

Okay so I can't fully divorce the design decisions from Elon's general fuckery, but you get my point. Like, all the behind the scenes and PR shit is bad enough but even if we didn't know he had a tantrum over the name of PayPal and hadn't been all over the site being loud and wrong about everything, just these decisions listed would be enough to show what an entitled, inexperienced, immature walnut he is.

And it's really fucking funny.

[dd-the-man-without-fear]

[keepcalmandcarriefischer]

I think I need to sue twitter. They changed they thing to X, right? And it's all stylized like 𝕏 right?

Y'all wanna see a tattoo I have had for a while?

How am I supposed to explain to people that this is not a twitter tattoo?

[netscapenavigator-official]

The funniest part about what I’ve done to my blog today is that it took me less than five minutes to do using nothing more than my phone and a Unicode copy/paste website. And that, above all else, should tell you just how creatively bankrupt Musk, Twitter, and the rest of Silicon Valley are.

[elt]

[ilthit]

Hey now did 𝕏 just die? Wife got a message to check her (deactivated) account, the whole site shows 404.

[kaleidoscopevisualart]

𝕏 Groovy Colorful Symmetry 📺 Kaleidoscope Visuals with Music

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

[acatnamedafteradog]

Art by Shiroi Rin on twitter 𝕏

[butterflypistolking]

when an account called uglysideoftumblr is posting twitter X screenshots on threads

[dd-the-man-without-fear]