Twitter tried to goad businesses into buying more ads so they can stay verified
3 years ago by Ken27238 to c/technology
arguably the worse rebranding ever. the only thing that has changed is the logo and Elon saying "were not Twitter we're now X". Twitter branding is still all over twitter.com, it still called tweets, retweets. Hell, the terms of service are even using both twitter and X Corp.
I'm waiting for Elon to get rid of the twitter.com domain and forgetting to renew it, and someone swooping in and getting it. Because that's something that would totally happen with his track record.
That would be hilarious! Even better if it redirected to a Lemmy instance.
I just read an article saying Musk has bought xvideos.com. It didn’t say, but I’m guessing he means to turn it into something like YouTube. If so, that’s hilariously misguided.
The man is a joke. As a designer who has done a fair amount of branding work, this is the dumbest rebranding attempt I’ve ever seen. I’ve dealt with some stubbornly clueless clients who had to be talked out of driving their brand off a cliff, but this is next level.
What’s Twitter?
It used to be this social media site where you could write these notes that were short enough for blue birds to carry around to everyone.
Dingdingding
Reminds me of a quote from Suits, something along the lines of "I'm not blackmailing you, I'm extorting you."
"Goad"? Shit's straight up extortion.
Twitter is a bully.
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Twitter: The company owned by a transphobe, that changed it's outside image and wants people to call it by a different name.
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