• Auzy@beehaw.org
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    They did a great job replacing a highly marketable icon with character, with something that feels like cliche 80’s dial-up geocities days that doesn’t make sense at all, given the terminology of everything…

    In other news, you need to log in to use twitter now? lol. Wow, genius

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    saw this earlier from an old twitter tab, thought my browser had been hijacked with some extension. what an amateurish logo, looks like what a tiny business puts up on their wordpress when they have no designers & are only making a logo because they have to, definitely not what i’d expect from one of the biggest social media sites in the world. elon has been fixated on the whole x thing for literal decades now & that’s the best logo he came up with?

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      what an amateurish logo, looks like what a tiny business puts up on their wordpress when they have no designers & are only making a logo

      To me it looks legitimately confusingly like the xorg logo, which ironically you usually see on a Linux system only when the config to display the correct logo for something is missing or invalid.

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    I wonder how many (e)X-twitter users there will be after this change.

    Even Mastodon’s old lingo "toot"ing sounds more trendy than "x"ing a comment.

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    yeah, well, even the @twitter account now has the X logo.

    Nitter Link of twitter account, showing X Logo

    x.com redirects to twitter.com as well.

    Wonder if Businesses will replace the twitter logo in their windows as well.

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      At this time, many businesses are indeed probably replacing their twitter logo, with either Mastodon, threads, or nothing as a replacement

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      Wonder if Businesses will replace the twitter logo in their windows as well.

      I doubt they will for a while at least. This change was so sudden that a lot of people will just not know what X is. It doesn’t look like a social media icon and a lot of people will just not be familiar with it.

      It’s also horribly forgettable, even if I did use X regularly, I might just forget what the icon looked like out of context.

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    No it isn’t.

    No… No it’s not… But you can imagine what’d be like if it was, right?