You don’t just throw away the brand equity of one of the pioneering social media companies. In general, I’m an admirer of Musk’s achievements, but this idea does not look like it will be one of them.
HBO is finding out how dumb things become when you change your name. Max is a stupid name for HBO. Now Twitter after this long is going X? We’ll see. Maybe he bought the company to destroy it. Wish he did in 2015. Country would have been better off and trump moreso.
I don’t have a Twitter, Instagram, Truth Social, Face Book, MySpace, TikTok, What’s App etc account so irrelevant to me.
I can see rebranding, because Twitter is dying, has been for a while. But X? That’s pretty lame. Ask the amazing LA punk rock band, not the easiest thing to keep your own on the internet.
Musk has typically run polls on Twitter when contemplating such decisions.
The fact he abruptly changed the name just 3 days after the announcement, indicates to me the focus group polling on the idea was likely very bad.
Therefore my expectation is more people will leave the service, rather than join it, in the immediate aftermath.
Longer term, we’ll see, but X seems a little ominous to me, on it’s own, rather than Twitter X. I’m assuming he’s pronouncing it “ECKS” and not “TEN” as well.
Smart move, it’s a new company, rebrand it and bury twitter.
No diff to me, don’t use it
Musk thinks very simplistically. Space-X, okay. The Tesla models came out as the S, the E, the X, and the Y....ie SEXY.
It’s Elon’s brand. Pretty simple...
Twitter (X) never let the 1-200 Thousand people they banned on that fateful January 6th back in.
It remains a modified limited hangout under joint ‘big tech” and government control.
(Despite appearances to the contrary.)
~Easy
(X) @easystreet4
I didn’t think of that but yes that works!
If you tweet on Twitter, what do you do on X?
Will there be some catchy (to some) verbs such as "tweet" and "tweeted" and nouns (also "tweet") to go with the name change?
Perhaps posts on a topic on X could be called an "x-change"? Or something similar?
Maybe call the whole thing "Planet X" (instead of twitterverse)?
X will morph into The Everything App which is what Musk really wants.
I think it is a bad move. People tweet on Twitter. What will they do on X?
I’ve been on suspension since March. Appealed twice without any reply. They called this hate speech. Here it is:
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JimRed
@MisterJimRed
@againstgrmrs Homosexuality is also a mental disorder. Until homosexuals gained influence in the mental health profession, it was known as Same Sex Affection Disorder. It suddenly disappeared from the list.
Mar 28, 2023, 3:09 PM
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If you’d rather just delete the content, you can .
If it was to be called “TwitterX” then yeah, I can see it, but just “X?” Dunno, jury is out.
Never bet against Elon Musk.