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2023: “Twitter rebrand to X is destined to fail.”
X ^ | 07/07/2026 | Katie Miller

Posted on 07/07/2026 6:47:28 AM PDT by SmokingJoe

2023: “Twitter rebrand to X is destined to fail.”

2026: “Fastest-growing website among the top 20 in the world.”

Fast Company 2023: Twitter rebrand to X is destined to fail

X in June 2026:

→ 4.399 billion visits → Up 4.66% from May → Fastest-growing website among the top 20 in the world → 3rd fastest-growing website among the top 50 in the world

X.com visits June 2026: 4.399B, up 4.66% from May

(Excerpt) Read more at x.com ...


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To: Robert DeLong
Obviously or they wouldn't still be writing articles.
Just in case you don't know where to find Google either, this is the link to their web site.

https://www.fastcompany.com/

21 posted on 07/07/2026 8:09:33 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

They trash Musk mostly because he’s backing Trump.
They didn’t trash Musk so much before that.


22 posted on 07/07/2026 8:12:46 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: FrankRizzo890
$44 Billion.
Worth every penny of it.
X currently has more political influence in more countries than most media publications.
Look what happened to Starmer after he got into a fight with Musk.
23 posted on 07/07/2026 8:17:34 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: al_c

Those who are purposefully hanging onto the old blue birdbrain name because there is simply so much TRUTH posted on X and post clarifications that they find X unpalatable for communists and their propaganda.


24 posted on 07/07/2026 8:17:35 AM PDT by Lopeover (END INCOME & PROPERTY TAXES! )
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To: SmokingJoe
Well, they are wrong, perhaps this will be their final nail in the coffin. My question was really offered in jest, rather than being a serious question. A play on their prediction that failed with regards to X, in a spectacular fashion. 🤣👍

As I said I know nothing about the company, but looking at the site, I am not impressed with their presentatin, at all. That's just a personal assessment. Others may be entralled. Makes no dfference to me.

25 posted on 07/07/2026 8:24:40 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: SmokingJoe

Of course! As Twitter it was the paragon of controlled speech — then Elon freed it up.


26 posted on 07/07/2026 8:31:15 AM PDT by ClarityGuy
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To: SmokingJoe

another perfect example as to why any article that starts with “experts say” almost always is a waste of time to read or listen to ...


27 posted on 07/07/2026 8:53:26 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: JayGalt

Most people still say Twitter? Really? I don’t. X is X, easy peasy.


28 posted on 07/07/2026 9:14:21 AM PDT by citizen (All Bush-era RINOs have got to be primaried out.)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

29 posted on 07/07/2026 9:28:09 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.)
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To: citizen

Most is always a loaded assessment. I know no one who says I found it on X but different circles are undibtably different.


30 posted on 07/07/2026 9:48:50 AM PDT by JayGalt (A never ending battle for Truth, Justice & the American Way.)
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To: SmokingJoe

While Twitter is succeeding, the article’s prediction was correct. Nobody has embraced the “X” branding. Everyone refers to X as Twitter, or in media, “X, formerly Twitter”. The left’s disappointment is that X is thriving, regardless of branding. Prince’s failed rebranding to an unpronounceable symbol also failed, but his success continued.


31 posted on 07/07/2026 11:00:29 AM PDT by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: ConservativeMind

Good one! I look better in the shade.


32 posted on 07/07/2026 3:39:10 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! )
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