Posted on 07/24/2023 10:03:44 AM PDT by Morgana
Elon Musk unveiled perhaps his most vigorous shakeup of Twitter so far on Monday: rebranding the social media platform and the famous blue bird with X.
After buying the platform for $44 billion last year, Musk announced a number of changes, including limiting the number of tweets users can see and installing a subscription system for blue ticks that saw the verification taken away from notable profiles.
The changes have alienated some users and turned off advertisers, leaving the microblogging site vulnerable to new threats, including rival Meta's new text-based app Threads that directly targets Twitter users. Despite this, Musk has remained persistent in his vision for the company, seeking to eventually culminate with his 'everything app'.
In his latest shake up, Musk reached out to his fans for logo ideas and chose one, which he described as minimalist Art Deco, saying it 'certainly will be refined.' He replaced his own Twitter icon with a white X on a black background and posted a picture of the design projected on Twitter's San Francisco headquarters.
This was a vastly different process to Twitter's famous blue bird, which saw three professional designers undertake an extensive process that involved dozens of versions of minimally different birds.
The rebrand didn't appear to impress many already on Twitter/X this morning following the change. One user vented: 'Can someone tell this man to leave Twitter alone?', while another joked: 'Twitter is rebranding to X and I can't help but ask Y.'
'Wtf is X???? Can somebody tell this man to leave twitter alone?' another user wrote.
The marketing experts have also now had their say, and many haven't been subtle in their damnation of Musk's approach, deemed by some as 'absolute marketing suicide'.
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Elon must have employed the same consulting firm that renamed the Redskins to the Commanders...
True! Luckily Rio and Bazbo came up with good suggestions!
Ted Turner tried to buy one of the Networks before he established CNN and the whole community went ballistic claiming he was way to conservative and would destroy the country. And that is the way it is, goodnight.
It’s pretty stupid he pretty much killed Twitter I don’t care one bit
That’s right, the left will never give up their death grip on the any of the 3 networks. It would have to be hostile takeover and even Musk does not have the money for that. Too bad it would absolutely dominate the rating within a month.
Perhaps it’s his way of mocking it. I walk a lot in my prayer time :)
MAGA IS the TEA Party, regrouped.
I am/was in both! The communists killed the TEA Party with targeted destruction. We were politically homeless, until The Donald floated down those golden stairs. Now We’re Back, Baby!!!
blast from the past...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdzspfkujHQ&list=PLarUzI_YedbtCVW3_px8qP1dW1biYxSlb
and the Jan 6th rally
https://rumble.com/v181401-january-6th-rally-2021.html
What will the company be called?
Will people say Twitter or will they whisper ‘I was at the X site and....’
I think this might be the greatest re-branding move in corporate American history.
Bad move Elon.
One of the worst ideas since Coca Cola changing Coke.
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X.com came first. It eventually became PayPal.
So what? I was talking about Musk’s simplistic views on things, not any order of which came first.
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