X is just a BAAAAAAD brand that it's almost insulting the people who uses it, honestly were I'm from it sounds like an adult website..
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One of the rules of branding is to choose a unique name to prevent confusion. Half the time I see the X logo I don't know if they're talking about X11 or the website formerly known as Twitter
Not to mention that from a visual perspective the icon 'x' is synonymous with closing or exiting a window. It's a horrible choice on so many levels.
It’s funny that if you need to clarify X, you can say x11. If you need to clarify X, though, it’s still twitter
Oh, do you mean X the window manager or X the social media website?
The fact that a clarification like that needs to be made shows that Twitter has a branding problem.
Now, tell me which is which:
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Or the XCOM games.
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X is just a BAAAAAAD brand
So - a perfectly accurate name for the company then.
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People need to stop using Twitter. It's like trying to using AOL or whatever now. It's basically a dead product.
I am so puzzled by this. I've been using the Internet for 30 years, and in early 2000 people were much more standing up to principles. The greatest example was when digg changed how it operated with v4, people left it overnight. Now they prefer to be fucked over and don't have any intention of changing it, and excuses are really lame like "alternatives are too hard".
I think Yuval Harari was right and social media figured out how to hack our brains and control us.
It's not only laymen either. I have Software Engineering friends who continue to use Twitter because RSS, Mastodon or any other alternative is "hard". They have no core values or integrity whatsoever.
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News sites also need to stop going on about it. Its like feeding the troll. I’ve never used the thing other than looking at it briefly in its early days, and yet I’m constantly hearing about it. And here I am commenting about this apparently (Western) globally important website which has served no purpose in my life. What a waste of energy all around. Self perpetuating negative feedback loop tech wank. Digital town square my arse. The little I know about it is from bad headlines which I wish I could unsee as its of zero consequence.
There's a whole host of modern journalists who don't know how the fuck to do their jobs without twitter, I'd put money on that being the reason we still read so much about it
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Why not just switch your site redirects? Instead of x.com opening twitter.com make them go to x, and eventually stop the redirects and put a landing page on Twitter with a link to x.com. How do you expect people to stop calling it Twitter when that's literally the site name even if you type in x.com
He doesn't just want the links to change. He wants the mindshare to change. To erase twitter.com from consciousness. Because X is like, super cool, man. So the solution is to rewrite tweets so it's impossible to say the ungood name.
Prob too many references to twitter.com in their code or whatever to fix or something similar?
find -type f -exec sed -i 's/twitter.com/x.com/g' {}\;
Take a backup first in case it breaks something, which it most likely will.
I don't really know code but he has that curvy line and some different colors and shit so this should work. Ship it. No need to test.
You just passed the exam to be a Project Manager
We don't always test but when we do, it's in prod.
Fuck it! We'll do it live!
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The only time it's ok to dead name anyone is, Twitter. Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Suck it elon!
Some poor mfer's shitty regex just got put on blast at a Twitter emergency software dev meeting.
Some poor mfer's shitty regex just got put on blast
Oh fuck, oh fuck, oh fuck
at a Twitter emergency software dev meeting.
Oh thank goodness!!!
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I don’t care what they do. If I have to refer to that social media platform/shitshow of a vanity project in any way whatsoever, I’m calling it Twitter.
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Petty.
He doesn't have control over what others think and say no matter what he tries.
Social media should be owned and operated by the people.
Love you lemmy/mastaon
Not just petty, but incredibly stupid. He bought one of the most recognizable brands on the planet. Everyone knows what a tweet is, a retweet, a quote tweet, hell, hashtags exploded in popularity because of Twitter. An entire community (re: customer base) self-organizing and inventing the concepts of your product for you, organically and for free - it's any business owner's wettest of wet dreams.
And then he threw that all down the drain because he couldn't recognize what was right in front of his face. Either that or he did recognize, but still wanted to relive some tech fantasy he cooked up twenty years ago and can't let go of. Either way, astronomically, gigantically, absolutely unfathomably stupid.
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Ctrl+F: Twitter.com
Replace all with: X.com
Someone at Xitter should hire me ASAP! My development skills are on-par with Elon.
Whatever, i'm still calling it Xitter.
I've been thinking about this while on the toilet. Why there? Because that's about the only time I waste time thinking about Twitter.
Call it X. Call it muskX. Call it whatever
But don't call it Twitter
See, twitter is dead. X is trying to capitalize on the corpse.
Continuing to call it Twitter just gives validity and credibility to X by pretending that it's the same thing under a different name.
Call it Shitter, call it anything but what gives musk any validation at all
Interesting reasoning, but I prefer mine. I will keep calling it Twitter if only because its CEO fumes when it's being called Twitter. And I'm okay with that.
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I'm thankful that with my overkill combination of Firefox security extensions and various adblockers that they have completely broken the bird site from ever loading for me.
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What happened to Xitter being a paragon of free speech? You can't even say "twitter.com" without them censoring you.
How unfortunate they can't deal with the spam bots quite so effectively.
I'm still going to call it Twitter.
X sounds like a porn site of some kind. Fun fact, the government in India thought the same thing and banned it for that reason...for awhile.
Apparently it's not a well known story, so I'll remind everyone that India's government banned many different porn sites within their own country's internet access.
I don't know if it's at the DNS level or the actual IP address or what, but they banned almost every free porn site I've ever heard of, even more obscure ones like Jizzhut and alphaporno, even really really low budget ones that are just an index for a bunch of embedded videos from other sites
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He should just rename it to elon.social instead. That's what I think of it nowadays and especially since the name change.
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I don't get why he's so stubborn on X dot com being a thing. Especially since when I hear dot com I think of the 90s or early 2000s, and specifically the dot com bubble.
x.social or x.net sound way cooler tbh.
A shame that the pioneering Japanese visual kei band stopped referring to itself as just "X" back in the mid-1990s. That would have been a trademark fight for the ages. (Or at least, the hair and costumes would have been more interesting than what Musk usually sports.)
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"Well that's embarrassing" - everything Musk / X does
Good. Let the platform die for good.
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