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[Starver]

(well, it's in keeping with his past brandings, and even namings of a child)

The first thing I thought of, when I first heard of the change, was "the ex-Twitter" is going to be a meme (and not even in the "artist formerly known as Prince" way, at its height, of "hey, it's crazy what he done, but you can't argue that he's not an accomplished musician").

But I've been travelling/sleeping since then, and this is one of my first online footfalls I've made, half a day later, so I'm confident that the internet-wags have already put this (and better) into the memosphere without my help. (It's so obvious, has there been no branding-expert been willing to be a "no man" to his Elonship and suggest something different/keep it unchanged might better?)

[WealthyRadish]

I typed twitter.com into the browser address bar for the first time in my life, and immediately tried to click the 'x' in the corner to close the login nag screen (it was of course actually the logo and did nothing). My first thought is that picking a name/logo which can't unambiguously appear in any GUI is an obvious mistake that any mediocre executive not surrounded by sycophants should notice immediately, but somehow I think this is the least of their problems.

[dragdeler]

Yeah me too first time  I knew what to expect and I still lol'd.

Spoiler: the absolute state of twitter (click to show/hide)

https://imgur.com/a/Ltvnu9b posted as a link because the disclaimer imgure choose to put up there is absolute gold, what did I say, X><<X! 

re-edit:aw they allready removed confirm you're 18 to view this post

edit: honestly fucking THIS would have been better, haha I can't

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[ChairmanPoo]

Can the original thread poster edit the title from "I deleted twitter" to "I deleted X"?

[TamerVirus]

Knock knock, open up the door, it's real

[Quarque]

Can the original thread poster edit the title from "I deleted twitter" to "I deleted X"?

or "Musk deleted Twitter and you should, too"

[McTraveller]

Can the original thread poster edit the title from "I deleted twitter" to "I deleted X"?

or "Musk deleted Twitter and you should, too"

I actually L'd OL.

[Starver]

edit: honestly fucking THIS would have been better, haha I can't

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

https://xkcd.com/2690/

[EuchreJack]

Hm, was it worth it to spend so much money to shut down Twitter, when there are already replacement sites up-and-running.

[Frumple]

Did just occur to me, there was probably, like... I don't know how much money thrown into the graphics design related to the twitter bird over the years. Probably more money than I'll ever have in the bank.

Musk's thrown it out for a unicode character. Part of me almost feels bad for the consortium, they're probably not getting any sort of attribution for their contribution of the design.

[MaxTheFox]

Spoiler: Meme dump (click to show/hide)

[King Zultan]

I've noticed that X is what you use when you ether don't have a name for something and don't want to or can't come up with something, and this whole thing feels like a step backwards by changing the name to X.

[Strongpoint]

I just can't understand the decision, it is destroying a few billion $ worth of brand's value for... for what?

[JoshuaFH]

Elon is just a manchild with too much goddamn money. He's like one of those inbred royals that inexplicably got their country's crown and ran the kingdom into the ground.

[MaxTheFox]

Spoiler: A live feed of Twitter HQ (click to show/hide)