It’s an exceptionally rare thing — in life or in business — that you get a second chance to make another big impression," the chief tweeted. “Twitter made one massive impression and changed the way we communicate. Now, X will go further, transforming the global town square.”
Yes yes. Indeed. I love referring to a company by a single letter. Think about all of the great SEO will come from this! Think about the great way this will unite us all!
Yeah, Musk co-founded x.com in ‘99 as an online payment company, of which he was president by the time it merged into PayPal the following year. The X name was not retained but this was Musk’s online brand all along.
I’m just so confused by all this. What’s his end game? Why doesn’t let his IT team handle the redirect as it redirects to .twitter.com which doesn’t work. Why X?
I guess a lot of these questions will not be answerable.
Who is this rebrand for? A lot of people have ignored the Elon mess and kept using Twitter because “Twitter is Twitter” but if he takes that away, and people have to say “I posted on X…” then I hope another wave of them will quit for good.
Knowing what little I know of the boy, Elon probably wants to make everyone start saying, “I’m on X,” or “You can find me on X” as a puerile Ecstasy (MDMA) joke.
Of course they’ll no longer “Tweet” but instead they’ll “Xcrete”…
I made almost the same comment (after your made yours) on another post. I thought of it as 1990s-club-kid-esque. If we're making this connection, I'm sure Musk has, and he likes it.
What do you even call posts on X.com? Twitter had tweets. X has… What?
Twitter as a name was pretty much perfect. It explained the entire platform in a word. Musk thinks he can turn it into a WeChat for the English speaking world and that’s just not going to happen.
Oh god his obsession with X so awkward. We all had a thing (or things) that we are embarrassed to admit we liked as teens, but it seems like Elon never grew out of that phase.
I can’t wait for this X.com thing to finally get destroyed by the zeitgeist
Would this not be an advertisement nightmare (Not that Twitter isn’t already one) to try to change a recognized brand’s name to something completely different?
Also lol Godaddy.com Motherfucker can afford to piss money and he chooses Godaddy.
He's been doing X shit forever. He had a comany in 1999 that merged with PayPal. Then he has SpaceX. Dude is obsessed with that letter for whatever reason like he wants to be known for it, but I'll only recognize David X. Cohen, co-creator of Futurama, as the true purveyor of the letter X.
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