Elon Musk Says He's Retiring Twitter's Bird Mascot, Renaming Site

Why is Musk trying to kill Twitter?

He's such a try hard douche

R1, I have no clue what this fool is doing. It’s like he spent billions of dollars to buy a valuable property, only to destroy it. He bought a mansion to tear down and put up a double wide trailer.

He has the patchy wispy beard seen on many mental health patients.

Didn't he have some meeting with Putin right before he bought Twitter?

Demented and delusional person with money and power.

Microsoft already has a very similar logo trademark for the Xbox. I’ll be surprised if they don’t go after him for the new logo.

X?

Is it a porn site now?

For as much as we hate on twitter, it was useful for protesting. The first step in overcoming oppression

Why do away with one of the most recognizable logos on the Internet?

Instead of tweeting, you’ll now be XXXing someone.

He sucks at business

Genius financial decision!

R13, and I, Svetlana!

R10, he’s the richest man in the world, and therefore the smartest!

[quote]Why do away with one of the most recognizable logos on the Internet?

Because he didn't come up with it.

If you've ever worked for an "entrepreneur," you'll understand.

Tweet and Twitter are the perfect names. The blue bird says it all so easily.

Musk is an idiot.

He is such an idiot. The media will have a field day with “x.” He created a verb and a noun with tweeted and tweet. That is priceless. What a fool.

Changing a recognizable brand name is an enormous risk.

But X? Good lord. Just shoot yourself in the head.

[quote]Why is Musk trying to kill Twitter?

It will never die. Fickle queens, main stream media and the fraus all love their Twitter. They're addicted. Elon's purchase have them bitching and whining, but they're not giving up on it. Elon is their drug dealer. It'll be around for quite some time.

He lives to drink our tears. I’ll be interested to see how people respond who actually care about what their stupid social media thingie is named.

R18, Musk didn’t create Twitter; he only bought it last year.

This is an excellent plan!

A million websites have the bird icon with a link

R22 Yes. I do know that. I was just excited!

What do we say now, "X me?" "Post an X"

This is what is referred to as reshuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic.

X marks the swastika

Bad idea

[quote]This is what is referred to as reshuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic.

This is what is referred to as laying on the deck on the Titanic.

Terrible idea

Death of X

[quote]Elon Musk Says He's Retiring

Says all I want and need to know.

It’s rebranding. It’s not the end of the world or the end of the company.

[quote] It’s rebranding.

And completely unnecessary. He's a damn fool.

We all funded his Tesla company via federal tax rebates. This person is a LEACH and I say that as someone who was born in the same country. The sooner he gets lost the better.

[quote]A million websites have the bird icon with a link

Soon to be a million websites with no link to the bird or the X

Unless tax laws changed very recently, the US Govrrnment subsidizes Elon Musk every god damned second of every god damned day of the year.

He's quite the welfare queen, isn't he?

Would someone please retire this Drug-Addled, Snake-Skin-Selling-Tech-Hack, and wanna-be future *Father* of the next "Great Race" already? We're already living enough dystopian shit with the Orange thug and his maniac cult members, we really don't need this Egomaniac mixing it up as well.

I agree with r28. Musk Ass is being coy about welcoming the twisted cross.

You all simply must periodically check out the twitter (X?) of putative CEO Linda Yaccarino.

In fairness to her, Kara Swisher respects her. She’s a proven top ad saleswoman.

But since joining Twitter, everything she tweets about the company sounds like it came from a bot. She sounds moronic.

It’s clear Elon is making all the moves and she’s backing him up with her inane tweets. (And he likely doesn’t even give her advance notice about his decisions.) Her tweets are so devoid of plain speak, human emotion and just plain sense that they are a laugh riot.

And… she’s MAGA.

[quote]Why is Musk trying to kill Twitter?

Because Twitter only made money two years in its 17 years of existence. Thanks to his big mouth, he was forced to buy it, and at this point, the best (financially) course of action is to wind it down, blame the "woke", and take the tax write-off.

[quote] X is the future state of unlimited interactivity – centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking – creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities. Powered by AI, X will connect us all in ways we’re just beginning to imagine.

r41 Most of this sounds meaningless. But powered by AI is concerning, and banking is hilarious since who the fuck is going to trust their money to a failing social media/porn site run by an AI that fucks up at least once a week?

r43 Wait someone on Twitter just pointed out XVideos already exists... That should be a fun legal battle.

Wouldn’t “Q” be more appropriate than “X”?

r45 I'm assuming "X" is his brand going by him also owning SpaceX. He's probably jacking his dick raw imagining in 2033 his X app as some All encompassing combo of Google, Instagram, Twitter, PayPal and YouTube which you can also book shuttles to Mars on.

When I hear people refer to Musk as a genius I want to barf. He did not create Paypal, he fell into it. He did not create and design Tesla cars, he purchased it after the engineers made the cars. Everything he claims to have done, Tesla, SpaceX, DeepMind Technologies and The Boring Company he basically invested in them and appropriated them.

Should be XXX since that seems to be the predominant attraction.

Just name everything 'Tesla.'

There was some speculation yesterday that he did buy TW to purposely destroy it. I had read way back when he had bought it that the Saudi's didn't like TW because it was too influential. I'm sure Russia thought the same. The Russians and Saudi's seem to be able to control Zuckerberg much easier. Since Musk seems relatively close to Putin and the Prince of SA there is a good chance he was bought to buy TW and destroy it. He hasn't run Tesla into the ground so how can he all of a sudden so stupid and run TW into the ground?

Why can’t he keep anything consistent? How is flipping everything on a dime a good business strategy? Especially when you suck Republicans’ tits.

r50 I've seen a few posts on reddit from people who said they worked with him in other companies and it sounds like they were just better at handling him. Standard policy was just when he came up with a bullshit idea say you were working on it long enough until he forgot and lost interest and came up with]h another brain fart then rinse and repeat while people who knew what they were doing got on with keeping the company running. But at Twitter there was no one in pace he trusted enough going in that that cycle could happen, and with the constant firing and focus on immediate profit the situation got worse.

Its Reddit so don't know how true that is. But I've had my fair share of managers like that and he does seem the type going by his constant stupidity with twitter.

The more he does the more I buy into the initially absurd theory that Putin or Murdoch paid him to destroy Twitter.

Hast "tweet" and "tweeting" reached the level of "kleenex" and "band aid" in terms of branding?

Has it become generic or is it still mostly limited to activity on that specific platform? Or, is the platform so ubiquitous that it's the same thing?

[quote]It will never die

Are you still friends with Roger on MySpace?

Finding out that Musk is an absolutely insane narcissist was such a disappointment because, I am planning on building a house, and I really wanted to use Tesla power banks and solar tiles. They really are gorgeous and there’s nothing that I have seen that even comes close to looking as appealing as they do. But, being created by a moroneX makes me think that they probably don’t work very well anyway and I’ll have to go with a different company. So maybe it’s fortuitous that I found out he is stupideX before I bought a bunch of Tesla solar tiles.

We've been updating Mickey Mouse like forever. But we never killed him off and replaced him with a letter.

YES R52, I agree. I’ve worked around a megalomaniac. I’ve worked around narcissists. I’ve worked around sociopaths. Elon fits the bill. I guarantee everyone walks on eggshells with him, they treat him like a demigod, and NO ONE challenges him, particularly in his inner circle. He rules by intimidation, fear, and yes, stunts too. Take heed! You can learn a lot by observing his style of leadership and comparing him to someone like…..oh, let’s say Tim Cook.

If you want to be a great leader, or fuck, how about just a *decent* leader? Then what you do is take seriously that you want to surround yourself with people who will challenge your way of thinking. You need to have enough confidence in your ability to control and manage a diverse group of personalities. This diverse teamwork model assumes we’re all on the same mission and that we share the same (organizational) values and that the leader possesses strong character, humility, curiosity, an ability to collaborate, knows how to build consensus amongst stakeholders, a strong vision caster, and is much more of a servant leader profile. This man is a shitty leader because he *cannot* handle any difference from his own opinion, and his arrogance has gotten him into trouble multiple times.

Also, what’s up with the weird-ass attitude about procreation? This sick fuck thinks it’s fine to force his way of thinking into others, but doesn’t believe he should have to tolerate YOUR opinion because it doesn’t match his. He is a neo-fascist whore and a failure as a leader. I won’t say his entire career is shit, he has some accomplishments, but they pale in comparison to his failure and I believe that will continue. At the end of the day, he’s so much like his father it’s eerie. He IS his father, that’s his whole problem.

OP replies to itself a lot. Get help.

We get it.

Instead of tweeting, we'll be xcreting.

[quote] she’s backing him up with her inane tweets

Or: she’s backing him up with her inane Xs.

Elon Musk seems to trigger a lot of extreme irrationality against him. It doesn't make logical sense. Unless you were a blue check, the system works pretty much the way it did before, so it can't be about the product. Unless you are a shareholder in his company, his business actions aren't impacting anyone either. I'm pretty sure most people don't know why they are supposed to hate him, other than they read that they should.

FFS R62 - look what he did to Twitter.

[quote] look what he did to Twitter.

I look at Twitter every day. I haven't posted on it for a couple of years, but I read what people I follow post. Under "Following" there's a timeline displayed of the tweets posted by the people and entities that I follow. It looks exactly the same as before Musk bought it. I follow some local organizations, some celebrities and some pundits. Nothing has changed for me at all. Whatever, "he did to Twitter", it doesn't impact me at all, and have no reason to believe that isn't true for the majority of users.

You're full of shit R64.

He only follows small-time posters, r65. Why are you so attracted or foul either to engage in or commit foul behavior with such a person? As in shit-posting?

He's playing 18-D chess, Sheeple!

What in the FUCK are you going on about R66?

As dumb as this move is in the abstract, it pales in significance compared to Musk’s dumbest move, which was to purchase a company with a $10 billion market valuation for $44 billion. Once he realized that he was unable to wriggle free from the trap that his giant ego had fallen into, he must have known he was fucked no matter what. Twitter had never made money, and will never make money. Meanwhile service on the financing for the purchase is going to cost Musk ~$3-4 billion per year, probably in the form of liquidated Tesla stock (whose shares rise and fall along with Musk’s erratic and incompetent behavior—again, he’s fucked).

So knowing that he’s fucked no matter what, Musk is I think taking a “fuck it, go for broke” approach. It probably won’t work, but that won’t leave him any worse off than his original predicament.

Survey says!

So he will get rid of the Twitter name but the OF urination (sneak peek) videos are still allowed?...oh gee..I can't imagine why Twitter is tanking..

“If a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we’ll make go live worldwide tomorrow.”

Ah, the old “competition for free labor” ruse.

the xvideo memes 😆

He might as well just call it New Coke.

[quote]Unless you were a blue check, the system works pretty much the way it did before, so it can't be about the product.

If, like the vast majority of the world, you don't have a Twitter account, it no longer works at all for you.

Flush the whole thing.

When asked, DL icon and mother of molested Lorna, Judy Garland had this to say.

I believe EM is a Russian tool and was paid to destroy Twitter in order to interfere on the upcoming election and he has.

Elon to come out against dead-naming in 4 3 2 1 ...

It’s supposedly changed to X, but nothing on the app is different.

R78, I absolutely agree. Twitter provides real-time worldwide information/news that can bring people together very quickly - either in solidarity or outrage. Whatever side you're on.

With the indictments coming up, trials and the election, Elon wants to monkey wrench the flow of information. Of course the Russians and Saudi's are funding him.

The desktop now shows the X, no bird.

R81- This is why I wish the people who haven't yet tried Threads would keep an open mind about it. We need to place to share information about the election , the news, to keep up with what is going on right now. If another platform become more popular I will sign up for it, as long as we have a platform. I also admit that I want Thread's to succeed just to spite that anti-American pos.

Here’s the logo his pathetic web site should have

R84- It matches his maturity level so it's perfect. I'm surprised he isn't using the poop emoji.

Is he planning to change the general outline of the site from light blue to black? At the moment his big idea is just a bad logo that clashes horribly with the rest of the site

Sinister teenage boy aesthetic.

It also creepily reminds me of Russia's 'Z' thing.

R87- It really does. EM is a danger to democracy and should be deported.

[quote] With the indictments coming up, trials and the election, Elon wants to monkey wrench the flow of information.

Changing the symbol for the application is not monkey wrenching the flow of information.

[quote] EM is a danger to democracy and should be deported.

Changing the symbol of the application doesn’t make him a danger to democracy.

R89- Promoting fascism does make him a danger and that is just what he does and allows on Twitter now.

Attention-seeking behavior at its worst. "Look at me! I'm in control! I'm still relevant!!"

X is so 2019.

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The cult of Elon is so bizarre. He has this army of disaffected men who attack anyone who questions Elon’s business decisions.

I know people who STILL worship this man. What has he done exactly???

I cannot wait for Tesla to go down too.

In some ways he’s like Trump although less preposterous, r95. He inherited his money and like Kendall Roy, thinks he’s a visionary because he was born vastly wealthy.

The difference is, he’s somewhat less of a buffoon than Trump, who has cratered at everything except the business his father handed him with a bow wrapped around it, and he’s had some success himself, but by acquiring companies formed by the genius of others (PayPal, Tesla).

[quote] The cult of Elon is so bizarre. He has this army of disaffected men who attack anyone who questions Elon’s business decisions.

But the cult of those who are irrationally triggered by everything Elon says or does, even though those things have no impact on them whatsoever, that you’re okay with?

R97 I've used Twitter for years and love it. I think it's a great and concise way to get breaking news and opinion from smart people (selected smart people). Elon taking it over has made it way worse. The user experience sucks now compared to before. So there's 'impact' for you.

Elon has a very anarchic/libertarian viewpoint. He seems to think that journalists working for reputable organisations who have to make sure they've fact-checked their reporting otherwise they'll lose their reputation and jobs are of equal veracity to a Russian paid propagandist troll.

[quote] I've used Twitter for years and love it. I think it's a great and concise way to get breaking news and opinion from smart people (selected smart people). Elon taking it over has made it way worse. The user experience sucks now compared to before.

In what way? My experience is exactly the same as before Musk.

We know he wants X, because it’s easy to add dashes to become a swastika.

R97, yeah, I’m okay with it because Elon lives to provoke.

It's official, twitter now known as X

The app is still Twitter with the blue bird.

X??? Really?

Keep calling it Twitter. See if he starts banning people who do.

The Twitter url is still there, so it’s okay to call it that.

The "imperfections"?

[quote]The difference is, he’s somewhat less of a buffoon than Trump

Not that much less of a buffoon but less preposterous than Dump.

[quote] "He's such a try hard douche"

This "X" rebranding sounds like it's right out of the mind of a Marvel-obsessed fourteen year-old. Which makes sense. Because psychologically, he is.

I hope this site becomes defunct soon.

That's up to us R111.

I'm sure Bill Maher will keep on sucking his dick.

Just logged onto my laptop and the X is there

Wasn't on my phone app earlier

It all feels a bit "Divorced Dad Trying to Be Edgy".

It's a fucking branding release disaster is what it is R115. Half baked, half released - just another thought bubble as Musk destroys what's left of Twitter...

I think I’m done with Twitter. Every time I look at it, I feel bad. This seems like a good exit point. (No pun intended.)

If you use Chrome to access Twitter on your desktop:

There is an extension called [bold]Control Panel for Twitter[/bold]. After you install it, you can tweak the UI in a number of ways. There is already a checkbox to "Replace the X logo".

[italic]Voilà[/italic], the blue bird is back.

God, that is ONE UGLY MAN.

Safari is still the blue bird.

Ruh Roh.....

A record from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office shows that Meta applied to trademark their own 'X' logo on May 25, 2017. The trademark was officially registered in June 2019. Meta's own 'X' logo appears to be two opposite angles assembled into an X shape

Uh oh! Yet another Musk fuckup by the looks of it R121.

I’m tired of supporting this asshole. There’s plenty of other social media spaces to explore.

You know who was busy tweeting today on Twitter, "supporting" it? David Hogg, Pramila Jayapal, CNN, MSNBC, George Conway, Elizabeth Warren, Patton Oswalt, Mary Trump, Laurence Tribe, and many, many more. The people who left though it would of course collapse without their presence on it.

It didn't.

I don't know if this is more similar to the "music-artist -formerly- known -as- Prince", or "Ye". Both those were fails, so we'll see how this one goes.

Just put Twitter out of its (and our) misery already.

Why is it wherever you go, even on DL there's always one guy defending every retarded business decision this autistic South African diamond heiresses makes? He's never going to love you. You know that right? You don't have to keep pretending he's not made twitter worse in every way since he took over.

Can Elon jump from the tower live on X? Please?

He’s a guy who lives to be an asshole. He’s like, I’ve amassed all this money and power (same thing), and now I’m going to torture everyone… because I can.

Twitter owner Elon Musk said on Monday that tweets are expected to be called “X’s,” becoming one of the latest changes to happen to the social media platform.

Musk responded to a tweet from a user who asked, “So now that Twitter has been rebranded to X, what are tweets called now?”

“x’s,” Musk replied.

I always wanted Twitter to go away. Never thought that someone would do it for me - for the annual GDP of Cameroon. Now, who wants to buy Facebook and rename it to Dfyhjlp?

Twitter and the term “tweets” entered the public lexicon in a big way. There’s no way in hell “X” and “x’s” will.

“Did you see that X somebody just x’ed?”

He really didn’t think this one through, did he?

When he starts to wear his underwear over his clothing and covers his head in a gigantic ball of foil, Musk's fanbois will do the same.

Remember what "X" did for Madonna's career? "Artists are here to disturb the peace!"

Musk is obsessed with killing the Twitter name, and transforming the platform into a merger of a moneyless marketplace + public square + video content factory — his everything vision for an everything app.

In Musk's random tellings, it will be Twitter + Substack + YouTube + PayPal + Amazon + TikTok + WeChat + Baidu — all rolled into one universe marked by one letter: X.

Walter Isaacson spent almost three years with Musk — sometimes for 12-hour stretches, day after day — for a stunningly detailed book, "Elon Musk," coming Sept. 12.

saacson told Axios that Musk has been plotting the X rebranding for more than nine months — since before signing the paperwork to buy Twitter.

Really? It doesn't seem that well thought out unless he wants a fight with Meta over the X trademark. Looking forward to Meta's response.

He would be lucky have a job at a Starbucks if not for his daddys money.

This is sure to save the company and put it back on top!

R138- Yes, another genius decision! 😂

"Did you read that ecks?"

"Link to the ecks?"

"Ecks is going nuts right now!"

"I was on ecks all night reading about it."

"I just ecksed-eckted-ecksed- er, eckstededed that!"

The plural of tweet is tweets.

The plural of "ex" is "exes."

"I read 20 different exes about it."

"Those 2023 exes are going to age badly."

"I need to delete some exes now."

I’ve got a perfect jingle.

[quote]The DeSantis stuff is great, but my favorite pull quote from this morning is about X/Twitter: "A zombie Twitter, known only as X, reluctantly endures. A warped and disfigured platform, X marches on like a White Walker, an ugly shell of its former self under the command of a loathsome leader."

[quote]Daaaaammmmmnnnnnn

I’ve been trying to embarrass my friends who still use Twitter. This will help.

The only reason this app is still working is because of porn.

He can call it whatever he wants, but the general public is still going to refer it as Twitter. See: Sears Tower (Willis Tower), Staples Center (Crypto.com Arena).

“You know what they say, it’s a woman’s prerogative to change her mind!”

When you click the Retweet icon, the app still asks you "Retweet?" or "Retweet with Quote?"

Nothing has changed except for the "X" on the desk top.

It's still twitter dot com. If you delete the bookmark and then add it back in, it's still the blue bird.

I thought my company did poor roll outs but this is too funny.

R143- That was brutal, but accurate.

[quote] Elon Musk Says He's Retiring Twitter's Bird Mascot, Renaming Site

Big deal. The influencers will still be posting the same garbage

When I first saw this thread I mistakenly thought it read that EM was retiring. How utterly disappointing to be wrong. ,

Isn't X the name of one of his children?

How long before the switches back to the bird?

R154 he’s probably going to switch it something else since his attention span lasts about 6 seconds

He made that logo in Windows Paint

I thought Threads is the worst, most generic name someone could think of, for a big global company/social media site...but then came Elxn Mxsk

Elon has created a new tagline for Twitter (X). It appears in the app store under the X logo:

[quote] Blaze Your Glory

Charlie from twitch thinks it sound like a euphemism for masturbation. "Why don't you go upstairs and Blaze your Glory?"

Since Twitter is mostly porn now the X should work out quite well for him

How is it "mostly porn?"