‘Soon we shall bid adieu to the Twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds,’ Musk wrote in a tweet early Sunday.
  • Spark@lemmy.worldEnglish
    97·
    2 years ago

    Musk think the problem is the logo. Only if he knew, the logo is fine it is him that people dont like.

    • Rhaedas@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      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.

      • MxM111@kbin.social
        0·
        2 years ago

        Honestly, I would drop the McDonald’s clown. He is weird and some children and even adults are uneasy or outright scared of him.

        • Rhaedas@kbin.social
          0·
          2 years ago

          As said, Ronald disappeared a while ago for other reasons, but along with that McD became more of a “modern” look and got away from catering to the family at a kid’s level. They still changed successfully. My point was that Musk would throw everything out and do something totally not designed to bring people to eat there, and then blame everyone but himself. His most successful work seems to be when he lets other run the show, and his real problems started when he forgot that and tried to be front and center on everything without anyone filtering his ideas and verbal thoughts. Elon Musk a decade back would now have a different image had he just hired and listened to a good PR person.

          • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
            1·
            2 years ago

            The difference of course is that McDonald’s hired a marketing and PR firm to design a successful marketing campaign as well as a cohesive branding strategy that integrated its online and television advertising with an update of their store architectural design.

            Musk on the other hand is basically a wrecking ball destroying Twitter. He is not doing a very good job of reinventing the company and likely scared off any future employees who may want to work there, while being the target of a large class action lawsuit against people who were illegally fired.

    • kvothelu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      logo 8s fucking perfect. never have i ever doubted that logo or wished it change. it’s Twitter’s while identity. that guy 8s bonkers

  • Gregorech@lemmy.worldEnglish
    852·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • Ennuigo@lemm.eeEnglish
    72·
    2 years ago

    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”.

  • gosling@lemmy.worldEnglish
    391·
    2 years ago

    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

  • oxjox@lemmy.mlEnglish
    34·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • xSPYXEx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      25·
      2 years ago

      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.

    • HolidayGreed@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.caEnglish
    28·
    2 years ago

    Pay $44 billion for a well known and popular company, ditch the name and the logo for something totally new and unknown.

    So smart.

  • dq9@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    2 years ago

    Another unnecessary bandaid to Elon’s massive problems. I’d say he should quit while he’s behind, but I love watching him fail.

  • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    82·
    2 years ago

    Wrong community tbh, this is solid nottheonion material. I don’t understand this world any more to be honest. 😅