There is 0% chance this man is neither on drugs nor having a severe mental breakdown.
this post was submitted on 23 Jul 2023
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Ah yes, an X for the company known for their ✓. I'm sure that won't be confusing at any point.
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That'll solve all the problems.
Logo that was in the GIF Musk posted looks an awful lot like X11 logo.
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With what staff? Rebranding is fucking expensive.
Elon thinks all you need to do is change the site CSS and maybe do a press release, and he's famous enough that the rest will just take care of itself.
He's not entirely wrong.
In business, a poor person doesn't get to try, a middle class person gets one shot after putting everything on the line and a rich person can afford to fail a dozen or more times until they hit a winner. Elon has enough money that he can basically try an infinite number of times and at least some of those are going to work.
Same shit sandwich, new brand
So.... is this just like a really dumb cost-cutting measure to stop paying fees for the twitter domain/brand name or something, since he already owns the name "X"?
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I saw rumors of this a few weeks ago but didn't think anything of it. Is the domain changing too? Part of this the Comcast to Xfinity move, rebranding to drop association, I think. But Twitter's brand wasn't that bad so I don't know.
x.com already redirects to twitter. I suspect that will be changed to the other way around soon enough (twitter redirecting to x)
Knowing him, he'll forget to remove the first redirect
WTF did Elon even bring to PayPal when he merged with Confinity if he still has control over the x.com URL and name? It certainly wasn't competent leadership.
Myabe he managed to hire well or something?
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no.