by mnd999 on 7/24/23, 7:55 PM
I’m starting to think Musks acquisition is a piece of performance art akin to the KLF burning a million quid.
by dustedcodes on 7/24/23, 8:20 PM
I feel like I’m in the minority but I honestly couldn’t care less about the logo, the name or if Twitter will still exist for another 10 or 20 years. Nothing lasts in life. With or without Musk Twitter would have died of some reason or another eventually. It’s only a stupid app, it’s not important. If someone feels it’s very important to them then they have a problem in life which is not Musk. I didn’t even sign up to Mastodon, Bluesky or Threads. Twitter is interesting at times but I won’t cry if it’s gone.
by Slartie on 7/24/23, 8:58 PM
If I was Zuckerberg, I'd rename Threads into Twitter tomorrow. Get the Twitter brand deregistered because of inactivity now that Musk officially abandoned it, then immediately register it for himself. Sue Musk for the domain right after acquiring the name.
Surely going to cost a fortune in lawyers, but who cares?
by 3cats-in-a-coat on 7/24/23, 7:45 PM
Nice, but I wonder why. It's like putting lipstick on a pig. It wants to be ugly. Let it be ugly.
by dusted on 7/24/23, 8:42 PM
What I'd really like to read is some analysis of whatever makes people care enough to make that...I saw the 𝕏 and literally thought "well, that's an interesting symbol, Elon probably did that, whatever" and went on with my day..
by sillyalbatross on 7/24/23, 8:15 PM
The domain is probably going to move to x.com soon. But at least this fixes the godawful favicon he chose that sticks out like a sore thumb on my bookmarks bar.
by jdorfman on 7/24/23, 8:19 PM
This takes me back when Yahoo! started to add their logo to Flickr’s a year or so after the acquisition. I think someone made a Firefox extension I downloaded. It’s amazing how attached we all can get to certain logos.
by cantSpellSober on 7/24/23, 8:47 PM
Encode the image and and you could do this with CSS as a userstyle.
Most of the work is done for you though, the "old" logo is still all over the site. Click "X Corp. > About the company" and you're greeted with a giant bird, and Twitter is what’s happening...". It's clear there wasn't a plan to roll out the rebrand.
by JohnFen on 7/24/23, 8:17 PM
What's the point of this? Twitter (in the sense of being the service that everyone is used to) is dead or nearly so anyway.
by benwerd on 7/24/23, 7:49 PM
Is there one to replace its CEO?
by thefounder on 7/24/23, 8:35 PM
Wow...a logo as a close icon.Musk is really smart...sometimes
by ForOldHack on 7/25/23, 5:43 AM
Can't you replace it with a b**?
by awestroke on 7/24/23, 7:58 PM
Why? Why do you care so much?
by Zpalmtree on 7/24/23, 8:39 PM
Is the X that offensive? Really seems more like an obsession with Elon to create this
by pessimizer on 7/24/23, 8:06 PM
This is a strange way for a person to cope with a change in brand positioning. It's like cloud-to-butt if cloud-to-butt were unfunny.
edit: also, shouldn't it just be a tampermonkey script?