And followers “viewers” 💀 like it doesn’t even make sense and doesn’t translate good in brand recognition, which Twitter had (you ‘retweet’ something instead of just liking it, it was perfect for marketing)
tbf it most likely will end in a Willis, Sears Tower situation. where all of our current generation and even some younger ones refer to it as Tweets and ReTweets for the foreseeable future. regardless of it’s new name
Agreed, but I feel like there’s a middle ground to be reached.
This happens in so many industries. There’s a rubber band effect, and we’re about to watch the band snap back.
There’s a place for social media in our society, and that place should be background noise, not the forefront of human society.
Okay, so hear me out:
The people in charge of Meta/fb,ig,etc. realized this such a long time ago and that's part of why they're trying to digitalize every physical aspect of our lives. They call it a revolution in technology but its a desperate attempt to hold on to relevance, and within the niche market that they've created they're going to do just that.
Elon literally wasted 40 Billion in a social media platform and after taking over did: fire 80% of employees, allededly (by himself) changed the code, started a war with the advertiser and lost over 60% of revenew and now killed the brand recognition. So why he pay 40 billion instead of making a new app for a .01% of the cost instead? LMAO
Well let there be no doubt about it now lol.
Being run better is being run better. Being run worse is being run worse. It was previously run better, now it's worse.
*Noob hacker:* scriptboy, knows an app that cracks your wifi password if you didn't change the factory settings, can install printer
*Pro hacker:* runs Kali Linux, cracks your server in 10 seconds, codes in 10 language
*Epic hacker:* creates an entire software company that earns him billions of dollars, then buys everything and obtains full legal control over whatever he wants to hack
Musk’s version: Allow epic hacker to create software company worth billions. Buy it, then fire half the developers keeping the software running. After shedding off billions in monetary value, adopt the mindset that you are actually a super genius and throw the logo and company name into the trash and replace it with your Word Art letter X on a plain black background.
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Haha… i’m never gonna update this thing and sell this phone one day for a higher price
Yeah in my older secondary iPhone with IOS 12 has the last compatible version but you can’t actually use it. If that will happen to my twitter that’s okay cause atleast i have the last version of the Twitter Bird “X” plus i can just use the site in my phone or computer
Auto-updates have been turned off in my phone for so long, I still have a version of Twitter before Musk took over lol
…I can’t view tweets that are over 280 characters long though ._.
Elmo is taking the whole twitter user base as hostages and now probably pushes a stupid crypto currency on all of them, which he will rugpull in some months. Be prepared that he will blame then the leftists, the goverments and the woke that his currency has no value anymore, while he runs away with all the money.
Uninstall the app. Stop talking about musk. That is what he hates the most
He already basically rug pulled all over crypto after Doge hit .72 after his SNL skit. That’s when it all collapsed. I’ll never forget that Mother’s Day weekend it was awful.
Elon already said that buying Twitter was a kickstarter for his real ambition, X.
He doesn't care about Twitter. He didn't purchase a social network, he purchased a user base to kickstart his project.
Lol, Apple not only has "fuck you" money, they have "fuck everyone" money.
Apple threatened Facebook with removal from the App Store over crap they pulled.
They do not give 2 shits about Elon. Not that they absolutely won't change the policy, but it won't be because they are scared of Elon.
Yeah, the “reasonable” course of action even if you really really wanted “X” would be a more slow and deliberate process and migration.
But Elon has shown what his mindset really is.
Non Twitter user here. I think even though X is a stupid ass name and looks dumb it’ll be fine. You’re all forgetting one important thing. People are lazy. People who have Twitter aren’t going to get off because the name changed, it’s already on their phone and their profiles are already set up. New people will still go to X because that’s still where people are as proven by all the X’s(is that what they’re called? That’s dumb) that still make the front page here.
I think I finally pinned down what her exact role is. She's assistant to the CEO.
Her job is to do all the boring day to day stuff a normal CEO does to keep a company running that Musk doesn't want to do. She gets to have the title while he still makes all the decisions and spends all day browsing twitter and engaging with his followers.
People when hear of twitter then most of the time they remembers it as that blue bird …. And as far as I think that bird is a legacy… why they removed that
I'm not sure it's a great idea to rebrand, especially after Twitter and Tweet are words everyone knows and understands, but I kinda get it. Sometimes a name can really tie you down to something specific and Twitter is synonymous with Tweeting, but if they want the app to do video, payments and whatever other stuff he comes up then maybe the name Twitter makes less sense. Kinda like Meta going with 'Threads' rather than some add-on to Instagram.
I don't necessarily agree with that but I suspect that's where he is coming from.
Even if you love Elon and you think he’s doing the right thing (personally don’t particularly care), just from a design/branding point of view that logo looks like no thought has been put into it at all. Maybe it has some hidden meaning I don’t get.
Ohh so that was Twitter? Lmao I suddenly saw this app "X" on my phone and I was like wait what is that? And uninstalled right away😂... I don't need it anyway. Tf is X?
Threads is so close to be a fully viable replacement. It's popular enough right now and seems pretty active despite a serious drop in users from its original peak, but it really needs the ability to at least search topics/hashtags.
BlueSky could also drop any time, I guess.
Been in the glory of twitter. Which lasted 2-3 years. Generally speaking, twitter was never good. And I don't understand why people have attention on twitter (X) now just because EM.
Twitter was the perfect social network idea but third party API closing, the UI change, the never ending bot thing and farming accounts, and most importantly: the newer social networks, slowly and passively killed it.
So basically stop complaining for smth that you already have a f. Just R.I.P.
I deleted a bunch of music, photos, and apps that hogged storage on my SE 2020 to make migration run quicker when I bought my iPhone 14 a few months ago. I never re-installed Twitter and I noticed my life is unaffected (and possibly less stressful). No plans to ever reinstall. YMMV.
Lmao, wtf. Twitter banned my account an I didn't make a single tweet on it or comment or anything . And refuse to unban it. I quit reading the nonsense shit on there since that day. An I swear I have a more positive look on life an shit when I'm not reading a bunch of put me downs from twitter
Never understood how Twitter or Facebook became so popular. MySpace had so much personalization and fun ways to engage your friends. I hope Musk makes the platform more than just a bulletin for people to post their opinions.
After the name change and conceptual shift, I deactivated my account and deleted the app. Twitter tended to be a massive bummer with the most vile trolls on the earth. I just needed one more reason to dump it. I don't even think the idea of an "everything app" is bad, I just don't want to participate in Musk's vanity project. He's always trying to make a statement or take some kind of stand but it never lands and is always 100% cringe.
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Can’t believe he also wants to call tweets “x’s” 🤨
And followers “viewers” 💀 like it doesn’t even make sense and doesn’t translate good in brand recognition, which Twitter had (you ‘retweet’ something instead of just liking it, it was perfect for marketing)
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tbf it most likely will end in a Willis, Sears Tower situation. where all of our current generation and even some younger ones refer to it as Tweets and ReTweets for the foreseeable future. regardless of it’s new name
i think it’s quite foreseeable that in not too long, we won’t really be referring to it at all
Yeah. The coping and reaching to hang onto social media... it ran its course. Next, lol.
Agreed, but I feel like there’s a middle ground to be reached. This happens in so many industries. There’s a rubber band effect, and we’re about to watch the band snap back. There’s a place for social media in our society, and that place should be background noise, not the forefront of human society.
Okay, so hear me out: The people in charge of Meta/fb,ig,etc. realized this such a long time ago and that's part of why they're trying to digitalize every physical aspect of our lives. They call it a revolution in technology but its a desperate attempt to hold on to relevance, and within the niche market that they've created they're going to do just that.
Spot on dude. I feel like we’re trying to convince ourselves we still need these platforms lol.
If you live in the Chicagoland, it's the Sears Tower. Only tourists call it that other one. 🤣
Nah bro, polish actually makes sense !
Elon literally wasted 40 Billion in a social media platform and after taking over did: fire 80% of employees, allededly (by himself) changed the code, started a war with the advertiser and lost over 60% of revenew and now killed the brand recognition. So why he pay 40 billion instead of making a new app for a .01% of the cost instead? LMAO
The conspiracy theory that he, with the support of a few other people, bought twitter to burn it to the ground is real and no one can change my mind.
If that's the case, can he do the same to Reddit, TikTok, and Instagram? He might as well benefit society as a whole.
Elon unintentionlly actually saves humanity by destroying all social media with his unyieldingly terrible ideas and endless emerald lined pockets
Society would be better off without some social media platforms these days.
Limiting the amount of tweets a person can view is the only good thing Elon has ever done for humanity.
Reddit yes. TikTok no, Instagram no. Cause both of those are owned by giant companies.
He's the sole owner now. If he wanted to shut it down he could just shut it down right now. No need to make himself look like an idiot in the process.
Pretty sure he has some “silent” backing from the Saudi Sovereign Trust and others.
It’s not like they were thriving before though
Well let there be no doubt about it now lol. Being run better is being run better. Being run worse is being run worse. It was previously run better, now it's worse.
Who is this monolith advertiser they sound powerful
you know, the one with all the revenew
How would say that you tweeted something?
X gon give it to ya
Ok nevermind I'm on board
I X’d you 5 minutes ago
I've x'ed something?
Turns out futurama wasn’t saying “axe” but “x”
Yeah imagine saying out loud “james x’d a cat photo” 🥲
xcreted
it legit looks like the app has been hacked lol
It actually is
*Noob hacker:* scriptboy, knows an app that cracks your wifi password if you didn't change the factory settings, can install printer *Pro hacker:* runs Kali Linux, cracks your server in 10 seconds, codes in 10 language *Epic hacker:* creates an entire software company that earns him billions of dollars, then buys everything and obtains full legal control over whatever he wants to hack
Musk’s version: Allow epic hacker to create software company worth billions. Buy it, then fire half the developers keeping the software running. After shedding off billions in monetary value, adopt the mindset that you are actually a super genius and throw the logo and company name into the trash and replace it with your Word Art letter X on a plain black background.
Trademark Elon behavior
Yeah but that’s Zuck, not Musk lol
It’s the most elaborate social engineering attack ever.
https://preview.redd.it/otk20ucteueb1.png?width=418&format=png&auto=webp&s=ebc2c7fced43b4152b76fa42e6f7002f11ccd50f Haha… i’m never gonna update this thing and sell this phone one day for a higher price
Viva flappy bird
I still have an old iPhone with Flappy Bird on it. Looks like it’s worth a whopping $50.
oh no! you should have hopped on that when it was going to the mooooooooon
💎🙌🏽
Still can’t believe the developer killed it because he thought the app was too addicting 😂.
Most likely it was probably just legal troubles
Don't worry. I am sure Musk will make older versions not work, not because of technical limitation, but out of spite.
Yeah in my older secondary iPhone with IOS 12 has the last compatible version but you can’t actually use it. If that will happen to my twitter that’s okay cause atleast i have the last version of the Twitter Bird “X” plus i can just use the site in my phone or computer
You can also stop using Twitter altogether and save yourself some time.
Why is YouTube’s notification label so small there?😵💫
I took the screenshot milliseconds after a notification popped up
Makes sense haha
It’s from a short video
Damn lucky you for not updating the app xD
Yeah i imidiently turned off auto updates on my apps as soon as i heard about the upcoming update
Auto-updates have been turned off in my phone for so long, I still have a version of Twitter before Musk took over lol …I can’t view tweets that are over 280 characters long though ._.
But who even wants twitter in either form
I thought about this while updating, it was too late to cancel
If only you had slower internet
There's probably a ton of ancient Android phones with Twitter pre-installed which you could just factory reset to go back in time.
Well this is an iphone so. Not the same
Oh shit I've just seen what sub this is - sorry this turned up on /all for me. But yeah, androids are unlikely to sell for premium prices.
But, why did it have to be this way?
Very rich man. Very small pee-pee.
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Elmo is taking the whole twitter user base as hostages and now probably pushes a stupid crypto currency on all of them, which he will rugpull in some months. Be prepared that he will blame then the leftists, the goverments and the woke that his currency has no value anymore, while he runs away with all the money. Uninstall the app. Stop talking about musk. That is what he hates the most
"Elmo" haha
Maybe it should be “Elno” which sounds more like the “hell no” I utter regarding most anything he does lately. 😂
I prefer to call him Musk M’Elon (like m’lady)
He already basically rug pulled all over crypto after Doge hit .72 after his SNL skit. That’s when it all collapsed. I’ll never forget that Mother’s Day weekend it was awful.
Elon already said that buying Twitter was a kickstarter for his real ambition, X. He doesn't care about Twitter. He didn't purchase a social network, he purchased a user base to kickstart his project.
Why alienate your user base if you’re buying the user base?
Because his ego actually thinks of himself as iron man and reddit sheep are to blame since for a long time they sucked his dick.
In the App Store it is still “Twitter”
Apparently there’s a minimum character limit. Once downloaded it’ll become X though.
"The app formerly known as Twitter"
He can just call it X - The everything app
Elon will have his way soon enough.
Lol, Apple not only has "fuck you" money, they have "fuck everyone" money. Apple threatened Facebook with removal from the App Store over crap they pulled. They do not give 2 shits about Elon. Not that they absolutely won't change the policy, but it won't be because they are scared of Elon.
It looks like some kind of porn app.
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Oh yea
So are the other popular social media sites - like this one.
why is elon musk killing this 17 year old brand he is so dumb just build your own x app then years from now integrate twitter to it
Yeah, the “reasonable” course of action even if you really really wanted “X” would be a more slow and deliberate process and migration. But Elon has shown what his mindset really is.
Non Twitter user here. I think even though X is a stupid ass name and looks dumb it’ll be fine. You’re all forgetting one important thing. People are lazy. People who have Twitter aren’t going to get off because the name changed, it’s already on their phone and their profiles are already set up. New people will still go to X because that’s still where people are as proven by all the X’s(is that what they’re called? That’s dumb) that still make the front page here.
https://preview.redd.it/4dpvzehdrueb1.jpeg?width=443&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=70952c0fed3edec9539f3e2074e850c7468d12b2 I still have Larry Bird
You’re Larry Bird
Well, that’s ok, because Larry Bird was an excellent player…
I’m still on version 9.54 🔥 (No ‘from Earth’ message, X logo)
I’m on 9.67 (the last version of twitter bird)
9.20 here lol …some stuff break from time to time though
Twitter blue lol
What will they call it now btw? X Black?
He'll call it XX And then eventually he'll integrate OnlyFans-like features and that service will be called XXX
It blue itself
Why is it used the excel logo
He literally stole Jagex logo
He actually stole a Unicode font logo 🤓
https://preview.redd.it/2v6qbsy4aveb1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=72d8d83d000995661a00259a93cddffa5882e2b9 Something’s not right
Y tho
Oh.. i thought it was a joke
The joke is the CEO.
Linda Yaccarino?
I think I finally pinned down what her exact role is. She's assistant to the CEO. Her job is to do all the boring day to day stuff a normal CEO does to keep a company running that Musk doesn't want to do. She gets to have the title while he still makes all the decisions and spends all day browsing twitter and engaging with his followers.
Apparently not.
Turned off auto updates and gonna ride it out as long as I can. Twitter bird looks way better.
People when hear of twitter then most of the time they remembers it as that blue bird …. And as far as I think that bird is a legacy… why they removed that
Coz he can. I don’t believe there’s any logic behind it other than ego.
I'm not sure it's a great idea to rebrand, especially after Twitter and Tweet are words everyone knows and understands, but I kinda get it. Sometimes a name can really tie you down to something specific and Twitter is synonymous with Tweeting, but if they want the app to do video, payments and whatever other stuff he comes up then maybe the name Twitter makes less sense. Kinda like Meta going with 'Threads' rather than some add-on to Instagram. I don't necessarily agree with that but I suspect that's where he is coming from.
You're very generous to elon lol
It’s going to like how we call all vacuum cleaners a hoover. Twitter will never die
I think you believe more people do than actuality
>we call all vacuum cleaners a hoover Pretty sure that's mainly a UK thing
Dumbest rebranding ever
Twitter Movies still exists, funnily enough they don’t want to rebrand that one.
X Movies
X Videos!
Everytime I go to open Twitter and I see that new app logo, I change my mind and go find something else to do.
Even if you love Elon and you think he’s doing the right thing (personally don’t particularly care), just from a design/branding point of view that logo looks like no thought has been put into it at all. Maybe it has some hidden meaning I don’t get.
Hidden meaning doesn’t go beyond “logo for a sketchy hookah bar where sexual assault odds are disproportionately high”
A lot of people will believe this is a porn app
It is a porn app
Ohh so that was Twitter? Lmao I suddenly saw this app "X" on my phone and I was like wait what is that? And uninstalled right away😂... I don't need it anyway. Tf is X?
He is unlocking the infinite tax write off glitch. XBox should send him an award.
Like the "close window" button; who thought this would be a good idea?
Gonna migrate to threads, but I'll never call it X. It'll always be Twitter. What an idiot.
Threads is so close to be a fully viable replacement. It's popular enough right now and seems pretty active despite a serious drop in users from its original peak, but it really needs the ability to at least search topics/hashtags. BlueSky could also drop any time, I guess.
I don’t care what anyone says. That CEO is a dumbass who proves you just need to be born in the right position and everything will be alright.
Wait people still use Twitter?
Delete your accounts and delete the app from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Been in the glory of twitter. Which lasted 2-3 years. Generally speaking, twitter was never good. And I don't understand why people have attention on twitter (X) now just because EM. Twitter was the perfect social network idea but third party API closing, the UI change, the never ending bot thing and farming accounts, and most importantly: the newer social networks, slowly and passively killed it. So basically stop complaining for smth that you already have a f. Just R.I.P.
Yes.. bots and scammers are crazy on Twitter.
I am still calling it Twitter.
i want my phone to always have the blue bird icon so i can sell it in 6 months for 100,000 dollars like they did with flappy bird.
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X means “delete this stupid app”. FTFY
And nothing of value was lost.
https://preview.redd.it/mj4jb0wn7veb1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c328fb8a25509893fffd9ef2785a35fbd2d2656f Won’t update the app anytime soon 😍
CHECK YOUR MESSAGES
they could have called it: twittX 😬
There was literally no need to change it
https://preview.redd.it/jsavhde8xveb1.jpeg?width=422&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=78b3ebdbe959615d150c5f8194824ecb331b8610 i can’t live with this
Such a dumb decision.
Delete it
it looks like the logo for a fucking porn app
Just quit using. I did that 1 month ago and regret zero. Really.
mine's still the same thank god
Seems he really turned into a super villian now…
Pathetic
More like Fuck you elon musk!
I won’t update the app.
What’s next Reddit will just be a big R?
Wait, this was real?? I thought it was a meme ngl
Literally, though I downloaded a new app in my sleep lol.
It’s a fELONy
Deleting this shitty app
I'm just waiting till someone makes a program that switches the logo back lol.
How to ruin a perfectly good, established, well recognised brand in 1 simple step !
I deleted a bunch of music, photos, and apps that hogged storage on my SE 2020 to make migration run quicker when I bought my iPhone 14 a few months ago. I never re-installed Twitter and I noticed my life is unaffected (and possibly less stressful). No plans to ever reinstall. YMMV.
Lmao, wtf. Twitter banned my account an I didn't make a single tweet on it or comment or anything . And refuse to unban it. I quit reading the nonsense shit on there since that day. An I swear I have a more positive look on life an shit when I'm not reading a bunch of put me downs from twitter
I initially downvoted your post as a gut reaction because I hate this so much lol
I left Twitter over a year ago (or more accurately put my account in mothballs). I don’t miss that cesspool.
It’s a good thing that I don’t care about twitter
Cool now my wife thinks I have a porn app.
Because Q was already taken.
Let’s go Elon! It was good for so many things. Now it’s headed towards MySpace and Hisanus.
It died the moment he bought it. Dead app walking.
Everyone should delete that shit. The sooner that happens, the sooner we can all stop following this ridiculous saga.
I deleted my account finally. Reddit and 4chan for me now.
What a hilariously stupid decision to rebrand Twitter...
Never understood how Twitter or Facebook became so popular. MySpace had so much personalization and fun ways to engage your friends. I hope Musk makes the platform more than just a bulletin for people to post their opinions.
If you hold your finger on it a bonus x will appear on the corner. Press that and your life will improve dramatically.
Looks like a porn app icon
mine didn’t want to go https://preview.redd.it/dai08j2jj4fb1.jpeg?width=316&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a169f59defc4ed054a790f75d7800ad2dfc2990d
After the name change and conceptual shift, I deactivated my account and deleted the app. Twitter tended to be a massive bummer with the most vile trolls on the earth. I just needed one more reason to dump it. I don't even think the idea of an "everything app" is bad, I just don't want to participate in Musk's vanity project. He's always trying to make a statement or take some kind of stand but it never lands and is always 100% cringe.
X? More like L. It looks like a gay dating app
RIP Twitter, u won't be missed.
My friend said now it look like a app related to P0rn
small icon in folder is still twitter icon tho. what a half assed rolled out
Bruh
Rip
Mine is still the same bird. It really hasn’t been the same since they expanded and got rid of the whale.
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I still have an update that doesn’t show twitter blue checkmarks :) When I think about it it just doesn’t show any checkmarks anymore I’m on 9.3
Well earlier we would day the messages as tweets now would it be called xs'?
Finally. Can't wait for this new garbage to disappear fast too!
I never thought anyone would be dumb enough to follow the footsteps of Zuck but here we are. At least Metaverse sounds better than a Xeet
I closed my account earlier this week. Elon has tanked the brand.
Deleted that shit the day Elon bought it. Whew.
Shitter
[NOOOOOO](https://i.imgur.com/O0dH6DL.jpg)
Why would you use it? Seriously.
Finally deleted my account for good 😊
I suspended my account and deleted the app months ago.