[Continuation] Musk buys Twitter II - Page 6

angrysoba · 24th July 2023, 12:51 AM

Originally Posted by Andy_Ross

Linda Yaccarino tweeted

She's changed her profile header to the new X logo

https://twitter.com/lindayacc/status...7bzGJGFLA&s=19

There's a whole thread of similarly gibberish posts

Quite wild that Elon Musk is trying to do, for real, what conspiracy theorists consider the New World Order to be doing. A global app in which all payments and information is stored, as well as the self-driving electric cars and… oh yes, a chip in your brain.

Shrinker · 24th July 2023, 12:52 AM

No surprise, the logo is an overly serious, masculine edifice. A logo for an aftershave called ‘No’. It looks like a band-aid placed the wrong way over a cut. It says denial, rejection, error, stop, close, cancel. If this succeeds, everyone employed in the field of corporate branding should wonder if their job has any purpose at all.

jeremyp · 24th July 2023, 12:56 AM

Originally Posted by Upchurch

I mean, the only way “X” works is if you pair it with something. X-Men, X-treme, X-Sports, even Space X.

By itself, you’re either assuming it’s porn or 4 decades of convention kicks in and you will have people assuming that clicking on will make it go away.

But even if people get over that, you are still in the awkward position where some of the X’s on the screen takes you to the home page and some of the X’s close windows. From a branding perspective, it’s just a mess.

Aha, now I see why he's doing it.

Anyway, Twitter has not yet been rebranded.

Andy_Ross · 24th July 2023, 01:01 AM

This reminds me of when Royal Mail rebranded as Consignia, that went so well

Matthew Best · 24th July 2023, 01:30 AM

Originally Posted by Andy_Ross

He should rename it as X and replace the bird logo with a hamster

Why?

KDLarsen · 24th July 2023, 01:32 AM

Just call it a WeChat clone and be done with it.

arthwollipot · 24th July 2023, 01:50 AM

Originally Posted by KDLarsen

Just call it a WeChat clone and be done with it.

That's exactly his stated intention with the "everything app" stuff. He wants to make an anglo WeChat.

jimbob · 24th July 2023, 01:52 AM

https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1...048652288?s=20

Quote:

Daniel Ahmad
@ZhugeEX
I think a lot of people are just jealous of Elon Musk because he’s on track to become a millionaire and they’re not.
11:57 PM · Jul 23, 2023
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176.1K
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Ouch

jeremyp · 24th July 2023, 03:27 AM

Originally Posted by Matthew Best

Why?

Don't google xhamster at work.

Matthew Best · 24th July 2023, 04:15 AM

OK

Arcade22 · 24th July 2023, 04:32 AM

People will be X'ing instead of tweeting. Instead of reading tweets people will be reading X's.

That just sounds ugly. The brand and image of twitter has been one of the few things except inertia keeping the service popular and this is only going to accelerate its demise.

TurkeysGhost · 24th July 2023, 04:35 AM

Originally Posted by Andy_Ross

Linda Yaccarino tweeted

She's changed her profile header to the new X logo

https://twitter.com/lindayacc/status...7bzGJGFLA&s=19

There's a whole thread of similarly gibberish posts

Wonder what her deal is. Musk is still very much the extremely public leader of the company, meanwhile Yaccarino has next to zero public presence despite being the nominal CEO of the company.

jeremyp · 24th July 2023, 04:42 AM

Rebranding has happened. The bird is dead.

Edit: Not quite x.com redirects to twitter.com.

TurkeysGhost · 24th July 2023, 04:51 AM

Originally Posted by jeremyp

Rebranding has happened. The bird is dead.

Edit: Not quite x.com redirects to twitter.com.

Rebranding is easy, actually making technical changes to the site is hard. This lag heavily suggests to me that Musk is just flying by the seat of his pants rather than making changes in a planned, controlled way. Must be rough being a technical worker at twitter, every day is a new challenge of trying to keep up with Musk's half-baked, product-breaking ideas.

jeremyp · 24th July 2023, 04:59 AM

Originally Posted by TurkeysGhost

Rebranding is easy, actually making technical changes to the site is hard. This lag heavily suggests to me that Musk is just flying by the seat of his pants rather than making changes in a planned, controlled way. Must be rough being a technical worker at twitter, every day is a new challenge of trying to keep up with Musk's half-baked, product-breaking ideas.

I think that's obvious. Usually when well known brands decide to rebrand, they have a long period of consultancy and planning and a heavy PR and marketing campaign to make sure everybody knows about it. They do not just issue a Tweet the day before saying "if we've got a good enough logo by tomorrow, we'll rebrand".

TurkeysGhost · 24th July 2023, 05:01 AM

Originally Posted by jeremyp

I think that's obvious. Usually when well known brands decide to rebrand, they have a long period of consultancy and planning and a heavy PR and marketing campaign to make sure everybody knows about it. They do not just issue a Tweet the day before saying "if we've got a good enough logo by tomorrow, we'll rebrand".

well yeah, and the technical issues with such a thing, like moving domains, are staged to roll out at the same time as the announcement.

The Great Zaganza · 24th July 2023, 05:05 AM

Quote:

X is the future state of unlimited interactivity – centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking – creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities. Powered by AI, X will connect us all in ways we’re just beginning to imagine.

The Germans have a term for something like this (of course they have).

They call it " eine eierlegende Wollmilchsau", which translates roughly to "egg-laying, milk-providing wolly pig", i.e. something that you want to do everything and which therefore won't be able to do anything well.

TurkeysGhost · 24th July 2023, 05:32 AM

Brand X, famously the name given to the randomly poisoned grocery store items in the Burton Batman movie.

Darat · 24th July 2023, 05:42 AM

Originally Posted by The Great Zaganza

The Germans have a term for something like this (of course they have).

They call it " eine eierlegende Wollmilchsau", which translates roughly to "egg-laying, milk-providing wolly pig", i.e. something that you want to do everything and which therefore won't be able to do anything well.

And in English we have the word "camel".

Darat · 24th July 2023, 05:44 AM

Originally Posted by jeremyp

I think that's obvious. Usually when well known brands decide to rebrand, they have a long period of consultancy and planning and a heavy PR and marketing campaign to make sure everybody knows about it. They do not just issue a Tweet the day before saying "if we've got a good enough logo by tomorrow, we'll rebrand".

Where did the new logo come from? Was it from an external contributor - if so I hope they've cleared the rights.

Darat · 24th July 2023, 05:46 AM

Originally Posted by TurkeysGhost

Wonder what her deal is. Musk is still very much the extremely public leader of the company, meanwhile Yaccarino has next to zero public presence despite being the nominal CEO of the company.

Sales.

She can speak to all the heads of all the advertising agencies etc. How long they will keep answering her calls is another question.

TurkeysGhost · 24th July 2023, 05:49 AM

Originally Posted by Darat

Where did the new logo come from? Was it from an external contributor - if so I hope they've cleared the rights.

It's Unicode Character ��

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F

No idea about the rights of using this, but it's almost certainly not able to be trademarked.

Real brain genius stuff to make a recognizable brand into something so generic it will probably make search engine optimization impossible, all while using a symbol that can't be registered as a trademark.

Darat · 24th July 2023, 05:53 AM

Originally Posted by TurkeysGhost

It's Unicode Character 𝕏

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F

No idea about the rights of using this, but it's almost certainly not able to be trademarked.

Not quite: New logo

Unicode

Wudang · 24th July 2023, 05:54 AM

Originally Posted by Darat

And in English we have the word "camel".

My immediate thought was Calvinball

Manger Douse · 24th July 2023, 05:56 AM

Xitter

a_unique_person · 24th July 2023, 05:57 AM

Originally Posted by TurkeysGhost

Rebranding is easy, actually making technical changes to the site is hard. This lag heavily suggests to me that Musk is just flying by the seat of his pants rather than making changes in a planned, controlled way. Must be rough being a technical worker at twitter, every day is a new challenge of trying to keep up with Musk's half-baked, product-breaking ideas.

You just can't think at the level Musk does.

a_unique_person · 24th July 2023, 05:59 AM

Originally Posted by Manger Douse

Xitter

Pronounced Zitter. I post zits.

alfaniner · 24th July 2023, 06:05 AM

They should have called it "Decussate". In a strange coincidence, the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe podcast had that as their Word of the Week, and it was recorded days before the announcement. It means "something in the shape of an 'X'".

Originally Posted by Jack by the hedge

I wonder if a "super app" is like a wunderwaffe.

Well, with a little shifting the new design could resemble a swastika.

tyr_13 · 24th July 2023, 06:06 AM

Becoming the crazy X you avoid.

TurkeysGhost · 24th July 2023, 06:20 AM

Originally Posted by Darat

Not quite: New logo

http://www.internationalskeptics.com...e743e2821e.png

Unicode

http://www.internationalskeptics.com...e74d3d9804.png

I see.

Looks like it was ripped off from here, Monotype's Special Alphabets 4

The X character looks like an exact match:

https://catalog.monotype.com/font/mo...al-alphabets/4

A Twitter account that focuses of fonts is discussing it, can't view the entire thread without logging in because Musk removed that functionality.

https://twitter.com/fontendou/status...07528405901312

Edit: Elon posted the single monotype character 11hrs ago, so it's pretty obvious that he is at least aware that it's an existing font.

Gulliver Foyle · 24th July 2023, 07:03 AM

Originally Posted by TurkeysGhost

Musks fortune is in no small part due the the fact that he got fired from Paypal before his terrible ideas could run that company into the ground, but now he's on a position where it's much harder for anyone to stop him from commiting business suicide.

He got fired from paypal almost immediately after it merged with his old company.

alfaniner · 24th July 2023, 07:22 AM

My first site visit today (already logged in) still showed the bird logo. When I did a refresh, the X came up.

TurkeysGhost · 24th July 2023, 07:52 AM

Well, I've seen my first crypto scam post by a blue check account impersonating the "X" brand, so I guess that means the name change is officially inagurated!

https://twitter.com/xerc20_com/statu...56562130558977

Darat · 24th July 2023, 07:54 AM

Originally Posted by TurkeysGhost

I see.

Looks like it was ripped off from here, Monotype's Special Alphabets 4

The X character looks like an exact match:

https://catalog.monotype.com/font/mo...al-alphabets/4

A Twitter account that focuses of fonts is discussing it, can't view the entire thread without logging in because Musk removed that functionality.

https://twitter.com/fontendou/status...07528405901312

Edit: Elon posted the single monotype character 11hrs ago, so it's pretty obvious that he is at least aware that it's an existing font.

So give it until Friday and he'll be suing the type foundry for breach of his copyright and trademark!

jeremyp · 24th July 2023, 08:28 AM

Originally Posted by Darat

Not quite: New logo

http://www.internationalskeptics.com...e743e2821e.png

Unicode

http://www.internationalskeptics.com...e74d3d9804.png

It looks like they are both the same Unicode character in different fonts. The Twittex logo is the sans serif version of the Unicode character.

jeremyp · 24th July 2023, 08:35 AM

Originally Posted by TurkeysGhost

Well, I've seen my first crypto scam post by a blue check account impersonating the "X" brand, so I guess that means the name change is officially inagurated!

https://twitter.com/xerc20_com/statu...56562130558977

Just for fun, I decided to report the tweet. It was actually quite difficult to select a category that properly included fraud.

jeremyp · 24th July 2023, 08:48 AM

It is an X social media web site. It has ceased to be.

Andy_Ross · 24th July 2023, 09:27 AM

The App still has the bird

lobosrul5 · 24th July 2023, 09:31 AM

Originally Posted by jeremyp

It is an X social media web site. It has ceased to be.

Nah, he's just resting!

lobosrul5 · 24th July 2023, 09:32 AM

Originally Posted by Andy_Ross

The App still has the bird

I'm sure twitters 2 remaining competent programmers are busily trying to change that too.

24th July 2023, 12:51 AM	#201
angrysoba Philosophile Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Osaka, Japan Posts: 35,256	Originally Posted by Andy_Ross Linda Yaccarino tweeted She's changed her profile header to the new X logo https://twitter.com/lindayacc/status...7bzGJGFLA&s=19 There's a whole thread of similarly gibberish posts Quite wild that Elon Musk is trying to do, for real, what conspiracy theorists consider the New World Order to be doing. A global app in which all payments and information is stored, as well as the self-driving electric cars and… oh yes, a chip in your brain.
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24th July 2023, 01:01 AM	#204
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24th July 2023, 01:32 AM	#206
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24th July 2023, 01:50 AM	#207
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24th July 2023, 01:52 AM	#208
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24th July 2023, 12:52 AM	#202
Shrinker Graduate Poster Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 1,220	No surprise, the logo is an overly serious, masculine edifice. A logo for an aftershave called ‘No’. It looks like a band-aid placed the wrong way over a cut. It says denial, rejection, error, stop, close, cancel. If this succeeds, everyone employed in the field of corporate branding should wonder if their job has any purpose at all.

24th July 2023, 12:56 AM	#203
jeremyp Illuminator Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha Posts: 3,815	Originally Posted by Upchurch I mean, the only way “X” works is if you pair it with something. X-Men, X-treme, X-Sports, even Space X. By itself, you’re either assuming it’s porn or 4 decades of convention kicks in and you will have people assuming that clicking on will make it go away. But even if people get over that, you are still in the awkward position where some of the X’s on the screen takes you to the home page and some of the X’s close windows. From a branding perspective, it’s just a mess. Aha, now I see why he's doing it. Anyway, Twitter has not yet been rebranded.

24th July 2023, 01:30 AM	#205
Matthew Best Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Leicester Square, London Posts: 10,199	Originally Posted by Andy_Ross He should rename it as X and replace the bird logo with a hamster Why?

24th July 2023, 03:27 AM	#209
jeremyp Illuminator Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha Posts: 3,815	Originally Posted by Matthew Best Why? Don't google xhamster at work.

24th July 2023, 04:15 AM	#210
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24th July 2023, 04:32 AM	#211
Arcade22 Philosopher Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Sweden Posts: 7,693	People will be X'ing instead of tweeting. Instead of reading tweets people will be reading X's. That just sounds ugly. The brand and image of twitter has been one of the few things except inertia keeping the service popular and this is only going to accelerate its demise.
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24th July 2023, 04:35 AM	#212
TurkeysGhost Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Apr 2018 Posts: 35,043	Originally Posted by Andy_Ross Linda Yaccarino tweeted She's changed her profile header to the new X logo https://twitter.com/lindayacc/status...7bzGJGFLA&s=19 There's a whole thread of similarly gibberish posts Wonder what her deal is. Musk is still very much the extremely public leader of the company, meanwhile Yaccarino has next to zero public presence despite being the nominal CEO of the company.
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24th July 2023, 04:42 AM	#213
jeremyp Illuminator Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha Posts: 3,815	Rebranding has happened. The bird is dead. Edit: Not quite x.com redirects to twitter.com.

24th July 2023, 04:51 AM	#214
TurkeysGhost Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Apr 2018 Posts: 35,043	Originally Posted by jeremyp Rebranding has happened. The bird is dead. Edit: Not quite x.com redirects to twitter.com. Rebranding is easy, actually making technical changes to the site is hard. This lag heavily suggests to me that Musk is just flying by the seat of his pants rather than making changes in a planned, controlled way. Must be rough being a technical worker at twitter, every day is a new challenge of trying to keep up with Musk's half-baked, product-breaking ideas.
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24th July 2023, 04:59 AM	#215
jeremyp Illuminator Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha Posts: 3,815	Originally Posted by TurkeysGhost Rebranding is easy, actually making technical changes to the site is hard. This lag heavily suggests to me that Musk is just flying by the seat of his pants rather than making changes in a planned, controlled way. Must be rough being a technical worker at twitter, every day is a new challenge of trying to keep up with Musk's half-baked, product-breaking ideas. I think that's obvious. Usually when well known brands decide to rebrand, they have a long period of consultancy and planning and a heavy PR and marketing campaign to make sure everybody knows about it. They do not just issue a Tweet the day before saying "if we've got a good enough logo by tomorrow, we'll rebrand".

24th July 2023, 05:01 AM	#216
TurkeysGhost Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Apr 2018 Posts: 35,043	Originally Posted by jeremyp I think that's obvious. Usually when well known brands decide to rebrand, they have a long period of consultancy and planning and a heavy PR and marketing campaign to make sure everybody knows about it. They do not just issue a Tweet the day before saying "if we've got a good enough logo by tomorrow, we'll rebrand". well yeah, and the technical issues with such a thing, like moving domains, are staged to roll out at the same time as the announcement.
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24th July 2023, 05:05 AM	#217
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24th July 2023, 05:32 AM	#218
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24th July 2023, 05:42 AM	#219
Darat Lackey Administrator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: South East, UK Posts: 112,544	Originally Posted by The Great Zaganza The Germans have a term for something like this (of course they have). They call it " eine eierlegende Wollmilchsau", which translates roughly to "egg-laying, milk-providing wolly pig", i.e. something that you want to do everything and which therefore won't be able to do anything well. And in English we have the word "camel".
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24th July 2023, 05:44 AM	#220
Darat Lackey Administrator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: South East, UK Posts: 112,544	Originally Posted by jeremyp I think that's obvious. Usually when well known brands decide to rebrand, they have a long period of consultancy and planning and a heavy PR and marketing campaign to make sure everybody knows about it. They do not just issue a Tweet the day before saying "if we've got a good enough logo by tomorrow, we'll rebrand". Where did the new logo come from? Was it from an external contributor - if so I hope they've cleared the rights.
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24th July 2023, 05:46 AM	#221
Darat Lackey Administrator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: South East, UK Posts: 112,544	Originally Posted by TurkeysGhost Wonder what her deal is. Musk is still very much the extremely public leader of the company, meanwhile Yaccarino has next to zero public presence despite being the nominal CEO of the company. Sales. She can speak to all the heads of all the advertising agencies etc. How long they will keep answering her calls is another question.
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24th July 2023, 05:49 AM	#222
TurkeysGhost Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Apr 2018 Posts: 35,043	Originally Posted by Darat Where did the new logo come from? Was it from an external contributor - if so I hope they've cleared the rights. It's Unicode Character �� https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F No idea about the rights of using this, but it's almost certainly not able to be trademarked. Real brain genius stuff to make a recognizable brand into something so generic it will probably make search engine optimization impossible, all while using a symbol that can't be registered as a trademark.
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24th July 2023, 05:53 AM	#223
Darat Lackey Administrator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: South East, UK Posts: 112,544	Originally Posted by TurkeysGhost It's Unicode Character 𝕏 https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F No idea about the rights of using this, but it's almost certainly not able to be trademarked. Not quite: New logo Unicode
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24th July 2023, 05:54 AM	#224
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24th July 2023, 05:56 AM	#225
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24th July 2023, 05:57 AM	#226
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24th July 2023, 05:59 AM	#227
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24th July 2023, 06:05 AM	#228
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24th July 2023, 06:06 AM	#229
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24th July 2023, 06:20 AM	#230
TurkeysGhost Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Apr 2018 Posts: 35,043	Originally Posted by Darat Not quite: New logo http://www.internationalskeptics.com...e743e2821e.png Unicode http://www.internationalskeptics.com...e74d3d9804.png I see. Looks like it was ripped off from here, Monotype's Special Alphabets 4 The X character looks like an exact match: https://catalog.monotype.com/font/mo...al-alphabets/4 A Twitter account that focuses of fonts is discussing it, can't view the entire thread without logging in because Musk removed that functionality. https://twitter.com/fontendou/status...07528405901312 Edit: Elon posted the single monotype character 11hrs ago, so it's pretty obvious that he is at least aware that it's an existing font.
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24th July 2023, 07:03 AM	#231
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24th July 2023, 07:22 AM	#232
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24th July 2023, 07:52 AM	#233
TurkeysGhost Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Apr 2018 Posts: 35,043	Well, I've seen my first crypto scam post by a blue check account impersonating the "X" brand, so I guess that means the name change is officially inagurated! https://twitter.com/xerc20_com/statu...56562130558977
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24th July 2023, 07:54 AM	#234
Darat Lackey Administrator Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: South East, UK Posts: 112,544	Originally Posted by TurkeysGhost I see. Looks like it was ripped off from here, Monotype's Special Alphabets 4 The X character looks like an exact match: https://catalog.monotype.com/font/mo...al-alphabets/4 A Twitter account that focuses of fonts is discussing it, can't view the entire thread without logging in because Musk removed that functionality. https://twitter.com/fontendou/status...07528405901312 Edit: Elon posted the single monotype character 11hrs ago, so it's pretty obvious that he is at least aware that it's an existing font. So give it until Friday and he'll be suing the type foundry for breach of his copyright and trademark!
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24th July 2023, 08:28 AM	#235
jeremyp Illuminator Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha Posts: 3,815	Originally Posted by Darat Not quite: New logo http://www.internationalskeptics.com...e743e2821e.png Unicode http://www.internationalskeptics.com...e74d3d9804.png It looks like they are both the same Unicode character in different fonts. The Twittex logo is the sans serif version of the Unicode character.