Elon Musk says Twitter logo to change, birds to be gradually abandoned

Pay 44 billion for a brand, then change it. Pure genius.

Twitter and Reddit are both lessons in how to kill a community and a brand.

He really did buy it just to delete it.

When they start focusing on the brand, it’s over.

I was part of a “startup” that was all volunteers. We called ourselves Citizens Market, and the idea was to produce an app that let you scan a barcode to get ethical info on the company who made the product.

Like GoodGuide, but they got to market faster.

After a few years of effort, a marketing person joined our all-volunteer team and convinced the head to change the name to Fosfo. Why Fosfo? Because matches have phosphorous in them, and so it referenced illumination, and the illumination had to do with our mission of … you guessed it: providing information.

The thing failed. I mean, we were already failing because we didn’t have the profit motive cutting our decisions down to what worked. But the name “Fosfo” was when I knew the project was dead.

“Citizens Market” was the perfect name for what our app would do. But no, had to have some web 2.0 jackass giving us a facelift. That was our path to salvation: a rebrand.

What is Musks obsession with the letter X?

New logo

Hm, how do images work across instances? Maybe this way?
https://media.kbin.social/media/c9/97/c997d8c329bf759045c432e379534b7687e412b914c86660f9e10f1e5cd7e03c.png

I'm sure all the brands who are unsure about continuing their advertising on the platform are going to love having to derail their UI teams to go change dozens of different social media icons implementation.

McDonalds Web Team on Friday: "I think we've planned a great sprint for Monday everyone. It'll be tight but we should be ready in time to promote the anniversary of Grimace's bris!"

McDonalds Web Team on Monday: "Shit"

This seems like an admission that twitter is dead.

All I can think of when he talks about how "X will be an app for everything" is:

Welcome to Zombocom, you can do anything at Zombocom, Welcome to you. Anything is possible at Zombocom. The infinite is possible at Zombocom. The unobtainable is unknown at Zombocom. Welcome to Zombocom.

They are called TWEETS, ELON! TWEETS!

What was that about him doing twitter’s technology policing and leaving running the company to the new CEO?

Only clearer by the day that this was all an exercise to intentionally kill Twitter to the benefit of billionaires, fascists and other extremists.

Twitter existed as a relatively free and open public space to communicate, organize and assemble to take actions for and against things at scale before musk (e.g. The Arab Spring, a terrifying moment for the Saudis especially - the second largest shareholder behind musk).

When people collectively laughed at elon and his cringe, inbred, emerald boy antics or his humiliating divorce and other routine failures, Twitter was the bullhorn.

Now elon and his desperate far right Toadies will work to try to rewrite reality so they can eventually have this conversation:

"Twitter? What's a Twitter? Wait, are you talking about blork? A bird? No, blork's logo is a dinosaur with chainsaw arms... and everyone wants to be his best friend... and it's against the law to divorce him... and he's cool... and..."

What an everlasting tool history will remember you as, elon. If they remember you at all, it will be to laugh at you - you'll never outrun that.

It must be incredibly frustrating to be the new CEO that he just appointed, only to have him continuing to run his mouth and make ruinous decisions that tie your hands.

Xwitter by Musk - the best social media in all 4 corners of this Flat Earth! Starting at $8* per month.

*Basic plan has a limit of 50 xweets per month.

Yeah... Because the thing that's wrong with Twitter is it's logo.

In ten years some kids in a discord round robin gonna ask why the fake social media in fanfiction are little blue birds. Wait they used to be real??

Least destructive decision he's made since acquiring it.

E Corp from Wish.com

Ironic how he chose an X in a strikingly similar style to the (old, unmaintained, and deprecated) Xorg. That was certainly a choice of all time.

If he keeps doing this people are just gonna switch to Mastodon lol

He’s been fixated on X for so long and everyone’s told him items a dumb idea. He’s finally in a situation where no one will tell him no.

Don't you know? The bird's aren't real!

They are really drone replicas installed by the U.S. government to spy on Americans!

Damn the bird flu even got to the Twitter bird this year

Changing your established brand to one that's been associated with Apple, one of the most litigious companies in history, is... a choice.

But why?

Its real or not???

Bets on this happening because he's bought into "birds aren't real"?

Birds were the only redeeming factor at this point!

Twitter is dead. I’ve loathed it for over a decade and am bringing out my dancing shoes 💃 🪦

Of course Eloon Muskovite had to get as close to a swastika as possible without going over...

@hedge I tried one with an AI: shitty logo for a company worst company ever i hate it useless dumb die forever

In. Fire 30% of the workforce. New logo. Boom. Out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgveuzf-ZZw

Like Comcast rebranding to Xfinity

Elon Musk tweeted on his official account on Sunday that Twitter would be changing its logo to an “X”

Am I the only one that thought of house Bolton ?

So Twitter is now "Chat-X"? Lol