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Quote from: MainIbem on August 17, 2023, 04:35:32 AM

Now I was curious to know why such thing happened and why change logo X, does it positively affect the users in any way?

It is normal for companies to change their names, it happens almost every time and according to the vision of the owner of the company new or old, either it becomes bigger or they added more services and wish for customers to know that they are not limited or what they used to be. Other reasons maybe, for easier pronunciation, or better representation.

Facebook changed its name to Meta.
Google was also formerly known as BackRub
Apple was formerly known as Apple computers
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Quote from: MainIbem on August 17, 2023, 04:35:32 AM

I don't know how many of you are regular user of twitter since I barely relates over there and I noticed is not cool for me to always use since the sold out to Elon Musk that was my ending love of using that social network.

Face the truth, you never really liked and used X while it was called twitter. If you did, you will not care if Elon Musk is the new owner or not. Your personally feeling about him will not affect the usage of the app.

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Quote from: EarnOnVictor on August 17, 2023, 05:23:39 AM

This shouldn't be a surprise, one should have expected it, and two reasons could be linked to the development.

1. Elon Musk who owns X (formerly Twitter) has been known to identify with "X" as a symbol. The two images of SpaceX and his X Holdings Corp should speak a volume on this.

Elon Musk and the weird history of Brand X

There is a weird history of Elon Musk's obsession on X and we must know he bought the domain x.com from Paypal. That domain was owned by Paypal that is a company with Elon Musk as their CEO years ago.

How much did Elon Musk pay for Paypal to buy that domain back is unknown but it won't be cheap.

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Simple: he likes X. For whatever reason, he’s probably the only one who knows. And to answer you question it does not affect users positively at all. If anything, it’s a huge downgrade. He’s taken the unique identity of twitter and made it into something so unfamiliar and unrecognizable. Comparing to facebook and instagram, twitter was the only one who had its own verb substituting for the word ‘post’. If you say ‘tweet’, everyone knows you’re talking about twitter. He even changed that and went for the generic term ‘post’. Hope he realizes how important these unique traits to the app.

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AFAIK, Elon Musk owns the domain X.com since the year 2000. Maybe he rebranded Twitter in order to finally use that domain name. Grin

Maybe he is a fan of "The X-files" TV series of the Triple X(I remember that there was a wrestler with that nickname). Grin

The new X social platform will become a major competitor of the social platforms owned by Meta(FB, Insta, Threads) and it will be more censorship free and maybe more oriented towards the right wing conservative people. This is means that it will gather users from the former right wing social media websites like Parler.

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It's like it is on his mind at all times. Look at the branding of the companies that he's got like SpaceX. So, with the rebranding of Twitter to X, he has talked about the super app before.
And this could have something to do with this rebranding and it is very timely when he's got to get the attention of the world by having a beef against Mark Zuckerberg. I think it's not just a beef but publicity that he needs for X.

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Yes, the X couldn't be a surprise for those who follow Musk. Even the model X is one of Tesla's flagships. But I personally don't like it too much, and maybe it was just a coincidence, because only the change in brand is not a problem (maybe because of the prior purchase of the whole platform was the problem) but I haven't used my twitter account since the change. BTW, how long remains it active if you don't log in in the meantime?

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This shouldn't be a surprise, one should have expected it, and two reasons could be linked to the development.

1. Elon Musk who owns X (formerly Twitter) has been known to identify with "X" as a symbol. The two images of SpaceX and his X Holdings Corp should speak a volume on this.

2. He and the new CEO have indicated that the former Twitter would revolutionise into delivering more than the microblogging service it's known for. Renaming it to X is another step in rebranding it since financial services and others are expected from it soon.

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Quote from: MainIbem on August 17, 2023, 04:35:32 AM

Overtime I hardly made use of twitter account and it calls to my noticed that twitter logo was replaced to X instead of the previous logo. Now I was curious to know why such thing happened and why change logo X, does it positively affect the users in any way?
I don't know how many of you are regular user of twitter since I barely relates over there and I noticed is not cool for me to always use since the sold out to Elon Musk that was my ending love of using that social network.

If topic already existed I don't mind locking this thread.

And i actually like the formal twitter logo it was different and unique i don't really fancy this new logo which is x and i feel elon is trying to use this name for all is assets starting from tesla and space x and i think elon is even more obsessed with the space project i think that is were the x is coming from, and some times i have problem identifying twitter since i have to start looking for x and since we the user does not have a say on how he runs is business if not for that am very sure a lot of users are not that comfortable with the way elon change the name and the logo and very soon tesla to might have a change of name over time and since elon has interest in crypto he might invest in a project and also call it x.

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Quote from: MainIbem on August 17, 2023, 04:35:32 AM

Overtime I hardly made use of twitter account and it calls to my noticed that twitter logo was replaced to X instead of the previous logo. Now I was curious to know why such thing happened and why change logo X, does it positively affect the users in any way?
I don't know how many of you are regular user of twitter since I barely relates over there and I noticed is not cool for me to always use since the sold out to Elon Musk that was my ending love of using that social network.

If topic already existed I don't mind locking this thread.

This topic will be suitable in politics and society or off-topic boards. It has no relationship to individual, organizational, national, or international economics. Discussing the economic effect of the change of the Twitter logo would have been ideal. However, Elon Musk is a lover of the alphabet X and he has always used it to name most of his firms such SpaceX, xAI and X Corp.,

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Well I read he just really likes something to do with that letter X. But I do not know why he likes it that much.

But he does have a child named Xavier so maybe that is a reason. And he already has company with the similar name, SpaceX.

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Overtime I hardly made use of twitter account and it calls to my noticed that twitter logo was replaced to X instead of the previous logo. Now I was curious to know why such thing happened and why change logo X, does it positively affect the users in any way?
I don't know how many of you are regular user of twitter since I barely relates over there and I noticed is not cool for me to always use since the sold out to Elon Musk that was my ending love of using that social network.

If topic already existed I don't mind locking this thread.

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