• flip@lemmy.nbsp.one
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    1 year ago

    Looks absolutely well-planned and not rushed at all, perfect alignment of the logo, proper copy. Definitely not just a hasty implementation of a fever dream.

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    No it isn’t.

    No… No it’s not… But you can imagine what’d be like if it was, right?

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    1 year ago

    I wonder how many (e)X-twitter users there will be after this change.

    Even Mastodon’s old lingo "toot"ing sounds more trendy than "x"ing a comment.

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      If you remember back to your birthday cards as a kid when your loved ones put XOXO in the card… X is kisses.

      So Xing is pronounced Kissing!

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        The X isn’t kisses. The X stand for closes eyes and the O is an open mouth, hence XO = kiss emote and XOXO is the plural

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          Doesn’t “XOXO” mean “hugs and kisses”? The X represents a kiss and the O represents a hug.

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            Yeah that’s what I grew up learning and my mom taught me that x is kisses o is hugs. Til that it’s seen and way!

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            That never made sense to me. X is the shape of two people hugging and O is the shape of pursed lips.

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              Yeah I don’t get it either, but it’s been that way for so long that we as a society probably stopped questioning it.

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    They did a great job replacing a highly marketable icon with character, with something that feels like cliche 80’s dial-up geocities days that doesn’t make sense at all, given the terminology of everything…

    In other news, you need to log in to use twitter now? lol. Wow, genius

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    saw this earlier from an old twitter tab, thought my browser had been hijacked with some extension. what an amateurish logo, looks like what a tiny business puts up on their wordpress when they have no designers & are only making a logo because they have to, definitely not what i’d expect from one of the biggest social media sites in the world. elon has been fixated on the whole x thing for literal decades now & that’s the best logo he came up with?

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      Supposedly this is a temporary logo until they can create a more permanent one. It literally came from some random that tweeted at him (X’d at him? Lol). He asked for submissions and just chose one, maybe he accidentally laid off all the graphic designers.

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        man, the whole elon musk/twitter situation seems less & less real the more it plays out

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        Rebranding was so urgent that he didn’t wait for a finished logo? I have to admit, I’m baffled. With his other changes I can at least imagine a thought process behind it, this one seems to be something he just woke up and decided to do all of a sudden.

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            He’s not, though. He’s had plenty of successful companies that have done some pretty amazing things, and he’s become a multi-hundred-billionaire starting from a relatively extremely small amount of seed funding.

            I suspect that his successes in other fields may have led him to think he would be just as good at running a social media company, which isn’t going so well for him.

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              He bought a company that got bought by PayPal. He didn’t build anything he didn’t run anything. He bought an existing company that got bought out. At SpaceX and Tesla they have entire structures created to stop Elon from fucking up shit and to manage him. If you need your company organized to manage the owner and stop them from fucking shit up you don’t get to claim to be smart or to build amazing stuff. In every case it’s the engineers that build amazing things despite Elon’s involvement. Elon himself is an idiot.

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              • Offer to buy Twitter for $44 billion
              • Try to back out when Twitter says “ok lol”
              • Get forced to complete the purchase
              • Saddle Twitter with the debt you now have as a result of buying Twitter
              • Invite all the previously-banned bigots and hatemongers back on the site
              • Make your staff’s lives hell, including bullshit ‘performance’ stuff like checking how many lines-of-code they write, so most of them are either fired or leave on their own
              • Raise API prices sky-high, get ridiculed
              • Lock everything behind user log-in, logged-out users can’t see anything
              • Rate-limit how many things logged-in users can do
              • Break widgets
              • Was once the public square of the internet, now weather services are moving to Mastodon
              • “why are we still losing money >:(”
              • Initiate a half-assed rebrand to “X” but the logo, 𝕏, is literally just a mathematical symbol. Who needs copyright on your billion dollar company’s brand identity, eh?

              Whoa, be careful everyone, these are the slick moves of a master genius!

              It’s entirely possible that he was smart, I’m sure he was to an extent, but I believe that Space X and Tesla have better structures in places for managing/limiting Musk’s direct influence, and I also believe that, like many of the super rich, he’s succumbed to a form of right-wing brain rot over the years. His brain is now smooth and toxic.