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Elon is a genius! He removed the bird, symbolizing the loss of freedom for its user and his company's inability to soar to great heights.
The bird leaving indicates an impeding catastrophe about to hit his company and the new symbol "X" is just as clever, because that's the sign people will click on when they go uninstall the app. Soon, the relationship between Twitter and its users will be nonexistent, just like Musk and his "X" wives
What is with this guy and his hardon for adding “X” to everything? He’s like a teenager that thinks that adding flame decals to anything makes them “cooler”.
It's halfway to a swastika.
He’s obsessed with it. His version of PayPal before he merged with the company that became PayPal was x.com and everyone hated it.
Teslax - Ask your pharmacist today what Teslax can do for you.
Teslax gives you erectile dysfunction.
May give you erectile dysfunction....in about 98% of cases.
The x stands for xtremely shitty.
Literally stuck in the 90s.
Musk think the problem is the logo. Only if he knew, the logo is fine it is him that people dont like.
The logo has been very successful in branding the company, as well as the companion verb "tweet". I think a company has reached peak when its name or something connected is used as an action verb. If he had taken over McDs he'd be tossing out the arches and even Big Mac with claims that they are the problem.
Twitter may have not been in great shape financially when he took over, but at least it had somewhat of an image. Musk is the contractor you called to fix a leak in the roof, and he burns the house down. He fixed the leak alright.
Yes, the name of the company, the logo, and the idea of “tweets” are all a charming evocation of a world filled with brief messages. Twitter has problems, but branding isn’t one of them.
Twitter was doing fine financially before Musk bought it. He paid more than twice what it was worth and he used loans to do it, that's what this is all about.
Twitter has never really been a financially viable company. They were losing money year after year. That’s not what I would call financially stable. There’s a reason they did everything they could to force Musk to buy it when he tried to back out.
Yeah there is a reason, the reason is because his dumbass offered more than twice what the company was worth.
Lots of tech companies operate at slightly under profitability. They were doing fine.
Twitter was doing fine financially before Musk bought it.
No it wasn't 😂
He just lit a sinking ship on fire, yes it's worse but it was bad before too.
What's the new word for microblogging on X corp? "Musk x-ed this morning that ..."
Funny, because "x-ing out" is what I do whenever I accidentally click on a twitter link nowadays!
If he wants to get rid of the bird why is he changing the name to Eggs?
He wants to replace it with an X, an x with bent arms in a nice red and white background people will love that it'll just pop.
Many social apps use blue. Having your suggested colour applied would make sure Twitter is supremely above the others.
He needs to buy Uber next....
X Transport
I've been using a moniker containing two Xs for over two decades. Speaking on behalf of my early-20s self, how fucking edgy do you believe yourself to be as one of the world's richest persons embracing a single letter as the epitome of logos to represent your umbrella corporation? Hire a branding team, you pathetically dull gen-x neckbeard edgelord manchild.
Seriously, the '90s called a they want their X back.
Elon is the kind of guy who picked a goofy xbox gamertag when he was a kid and never stopped using it. I wouldn't know.
Just wait until he comes after you for infringing on his trademark 😬
The alphabet will never be the same again. Sesame Street better lawyer up.
Do we need to stop calling them tweets then?
The new word will be 'twats', after it's owner
Years ago I used the word "twat" around my girlfriend and she said "you're pronouncing that wrong". WTF? I thought she was going to tell me to pronounce it like the English do ("twatt" instead of "twott") but she said it was actually pronounced "twah" - without the t on the end. Turns out she thought people were trying to use the French word toit. No idea why she thought people were going around calling each other roofs.
Lol
Call it a twix?
Xeet - one better than yeet.
That man's got no god damn sense.
Getting rid of the last remaining identifiable part of the company. Genius move.
It is entirely possible that he just wrecks companies for fun.
Or on purpose, in this case.
Rebranding at this level sounds very much like purposeful destruction of an existing resource and company, rather than an attempt to make the company any better, successful, or more profitable.
I'm starting to wonder if the Saudis have told him they'll reimburse any of his personal losses from his stock buy, in return for sinking and destroying the company.
It just seems like the Musk buy, once it happened, has been too effective a means of destroying a platform that was previously used extensively by protestors and activists to organise mass group activity against governments and authorities.
It would certainly be my answer now to those regular Reddit questions like "what's the one conspiracy theory you actually believe is true?"
Pay $44 billion for a well known and popular company, ditch the name and the logo for something totally new and unknown.
So smart.
Great, so they're going to replace it with a logo with no personality and which is less marketable.
I choose to believe he's just doing this for memes at this point. I can't accept humans are capable of these depths through inadvertent action, it's just too dumb.
Wrong community tbh, this is solid nottheonion material. I don't understand this world any more to be honest. 😅
It’s almost like he’s intentionally trying to tank this company. What would be the benefit for him? A massive tax write-off?
