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Author Topic: Twitter is Dead, Long Live X!  (Read 64913 times)

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Re: I deleted twitter and you should too
« Reply #810 on: July 24, 2023, 01:13:25 pm »

(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?)
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Re: I deleted twitter and you should too
« Reply #811 on: July 24, 2023, 01:38:40 pm »

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.
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Re: I deleted twitter and you should too
« Reply #812 on: July 24, 2023, 02:09:25 pm »

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





edit: honestly fucking THIS would have been better, haha I can't
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« Last Edit: July 24, 2023, 02:26:19 pm by dragdeler »
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Re: I deleted X and you should too
« Reply #813 on: July 24, 2023, 02:28:42 pm »

Can the original thread poster edit the title from "I deleted twitter" to "I deleted X"?
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Re: I deleted twitter and you should too
« Reply #814 on: July 24, 2023, 02:31:23 pm »

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Re: I deleted X and you should too
« Reply #815 on: July 24, 2023, 02:33:42 pm »

Can the original thread poster edit the title from "I deleted twitter" to "I deleted X"?
or "Musk deleted Twitter and you should, too"
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Re: I deleted X and you should too
« Reply #816 on: July 24, 2023, 02:39:15 pm »

Can the original thread poster edit the title from "I deleted twitter" to "I deleted X"?
or "Musk deleted Twitter and you should, too"

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Re: I deleted twitter and you should too
« Reply #817 on: July 24, 2023, 04:56:08 pm »


edit: honestly fucking THIS would have been better, haha I can't
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https://xkcd.com/2690/
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Re: I deleted twitter and you should too
« Reply #818 on: July 24, 2023, 05:48:26 pm »

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

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Re: I deleted twitter and you should too
« Reply #819 on: July 24, 2023, 06:20:57 pm »

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.
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Re: I deleted twitter and you should too
« Reply #820 on: July 24, 2023, 08:58:03 pm »

Spoiler: Meme dump (click to show/hide)
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« Reply #821 on: July 25, 2023, 03:32:20 am »

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.
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Re: I deleted twitter and you should too
« Reply #822 on: July 25, 2023, 04:27:41 am »

I just can't understand the decision, it is destroying a few billion $ worth of brand's value for... for what?
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Re: I deleted twitter and you should too
« Reply #823 on: July 25, 2023, 04:45:33 am »

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.
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« Reply #824 on: July 25, 2023, 05:12:15 am »

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