On Monday, it appears X attempted to encourage users to cease referring to it as Twitter and instead adopt the name X. Some users began noticing that posts viewed via X for iOS were changing any references of “Twitter.com” to “X.com” automatically.
If a user typed in “Twitter.com,” they would see “Twitter.com” as they typed it before hitting “Post.” But, after submitting, the platform would show “X.com” in its place on the X for iOS app, without the user’s permission, for everyone viewing the post.
And shortly after this revelation, it became clear that there was another big issue: X was changing anything ending in “Twitter.com” to “X.com.”
X is just a BAAAAAAD brand that it’s almost insulting the people who uses it, honestly were I’m from it sounds like an adult website…
One of the rules of branding is to choose a unique name to prevent confusion. Half the time I see the X logo I don’t know if they’re talking about X11 or the website formerly known as Twitter
Not to mention that from a visual perspective the icon ‘x’ is synonymous with closing or exiting a window. It’s a horrible choice on so many levels.
It’s funny that if you need to clarify X, you can say x11. If you need to clarify X, though, it’s still twitter
Oh, do you mean X the window manager or X the social media website?
The fact that a clarification like that needs to be made shows that Twitter has a branding problem.
Now, tell me which is which:
X is a window system not a window manager. The window manager is a client application that talks to the X server.
Can’t believe I didn’t catch that. Good catch.
Can you tell me, in fact?
The first one is X11.
Top left is X11 which means bottom right is Twitter
I think it’s a trick question. Bottom right is https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F
Or the XCOM games.
Heh, now as you mentioned, the logos do look very similar.
I immediately thought of the good old Scheiffler and Gettys book: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51YpMj4WSPL._SL500_.jpg
X is just a BAAAAAAD brand
So - a perfectly accurate name for the company then.
My mate sent me a link to a twitter post that had the x.com link and for a moment I legit thought he sent me a porn link by accident.
Elon is a living joke they already made in Futurama.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/QDaKTTZtJZY
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Also it’s not really a brand, it’s just a fucking letter of the alphabet. It shouldn’t be possible to trademark letters of the alphabet. Basic decency, people
How about trademarking Alphabet?
Exactly. Believe it or not, someone invented that word at some point in history. And it wasn’t google.
People need to stop using Twitter. It’s like trying to using AOL or whatever now. It’s basically a dead product.
I am so puzzled by this. I’ve been using the Internet for 30 years, and in early 2000 people were much more standing up to principles. The greatest example was when digg changed how it operated with v4, people left it overnight. Now they prefer to be fucked over and don’t have any intention of changing it, and excuses are really lame like “alternatives are too hard”.
I think Yuval Harari was right and social media figured out how to hack our brains and control us.
It’s not only laymen either. I have Software Engineering friends who continue to use Twitter because RSS, Mastodon or any other alternative is “hard”. They have no core values or integrity whatsoever.
Why are they your friends, then?
Work “friends” or also known as colleagues. Sometimes you just make do.
Oh, I don’t have work friends. I only have coworkers. I used to have work friends, but they rarely were there for me when I got laid off twice.
Reddit already existed and was a better option than Digg v3, sort of like how Digg was more useful than Fark for many. I don’t think there is a good replacement for Twitter yet because the people that create the best content are addicted to it.
Porn twitter has been totally unaffected by all of this
So you mean setwitter.com ?
Well, let’s add a couple more X’s to the domain name then.
I thought Elon was insane for wanting to rebrand twitter but apparently he’s not alone.
It’s twitter. Always has been.
News sites also need to stop going on about it. Its like feeding the troll. I’ve never used the thing other than looking at it briefly in its early days, and yet I’m constantly hearing about it. And here I am commenting about this apparently (Western) globally important website which has served no purpose in my life. What a waste of energy all around. Self perpetuating negative feedback loop tech wank. Digital town square my arse. The little I know about it is from bad headlines which I wish I could unsee as its of zero consequence.
There’s a whole host of modern journalists who don’t know how the fuck to do their jobs without twitter, I’d put money on that being the reason we still read so much about it
Sell the twitter.com domain name you cowards.
That’s inviting phishing. Bad idea.
With a domain as valuable as Twitter.com it’s very unlikely it would be sold to a phishing group.
I still don’t ever see this happening.
Usually they end up abandoned (can’t name your company “Twitter” the next tens of years) and get hacked for phishing.
Some poor mfer’s shitty regex just got put on blast at a Twitter emergency software dev meeting.
Some poor mfer’s shitty regex just got put on blast
Oh fuck, oh fuck, oh fuck
at a Twitter emergency software dev meeting.
Oh thank goodness!!!
Why not just switch your site redirects? Instead of x.com opening twitter.com make them go to x, and eventually stop the redirects and put a landing page on Twitter with a link to x.com. How do you expect people to stop calling it Twitter when that’s literally the site name even if you type in x.com
He doesn’t just want the links to change. He wants the mindshare to change. To erase twitter.com from consciousness. Because X is like, super cool, man. So the solution is to rewrite tweets so it’s impossible to say the ungood name.
Prob too many references to twitter.com in their code or whatever to fix or something similar?
find -type f -exec sed -i 's/twitter.com/x.com/g' {}\;Take a backup first in case it breaks something, which it most likely will.
I don’t really know code but he has that curvy line and some different colors and shit so this should work. Ship it. No need to test.
You just passed the exam to be a Project Manager
Elon? Is that you?
If I was elon I would have said ‘ship it you fucking code jews’
Elon affectiously refers to TWFKAT’s developers as “Kode Kike Klub”
Are you my company’s developer!?
in case it breaks something, which it most likely will.
Partially because you didn’t escape the dots.
Tell me you didn’t read the article without telling me you didn’t read the article.
Not like he doesn’t have the money to hire some people to get it done.
Not when he can just threaten everyone and tell them that they will all sleep on air mattresses at the office until it is done.
That’s what they’ve been doing. Shared links have been going to x, which redirects to Twitter. They started doing it the first time they tried changing and everything broke. This is their second try.
The only time it’s ok to dead name anyone is, Twitter. Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Suck it elon!
It’s fine to deadname any corporation. Corporations are not people.
Biologically it is a twitter and nothing can change that.
I don’t care what they do. If I have to refer to that social media platform/shitshow of a vanity project in any way whatsoever, I’m calling it Twitter.
Xitter.
They should switch the name to Wayland.com as a compromise.
People on X with Nvidia cards are gonna have a bad time.
But is X gonna give it to us?
It’s funny cause X is as dead a platform as that artist…
“Well that’s embarrassing” - everything Musk / X does
I’ve been thinking about this while on the toilet. Why there? Because that’s about the only time I waste time thinking about Twitter.
Call it X. Call it muskX. Call it whatever
But don’t call it Twitter
See, twitter is dead. X is trying to capitalize on the corpse.
Continuing to call it Twitter just gives validity and credibility to X by pretending that it’s the same thing under a different name.
Call it Shitter, call it anything but what gives musk any validation at all
Interesting reasoning, but I prefer mine. I will keep calling it Twitter if only because its CEO fumes when it’s being called Twitter. And I’m okay with that.
It is usually spelt “xitter”
I’m partial to Twixxer myself.
Twatter
I prefer Ex-twitter
it would have been perfection if they had done this last thursday (on 4/04), add another fail to the list.
Whatever, i’m still calling it Xitter.
Someone at twitter has clearly never heard of the buttbuttination of Lincoln.
