Elon's entire thought process when deciding to rename Twitter to 'X.'

Brainsick@kbin.social to Futurama @lemmy.world – 939 points –
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His first website (or company?) was named X and he said he has a fondness for the letter, hence his son's odd name, SpaceX, and the rebrand of twitter. He just likes the letter X.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon\_Musk#X.com\_and\_PayPal

I like boobs. Imagine what the logo would be if I had bought Twitter.

I'd sign up to Titter.

You may be surprised to learn that Elon painted over the W in Twitter on the building in San Fransisco this week.

We need a boobs social media platform. Now that's a million dollar idea.

Booby is a kind of bird. So, I mean.. The logo doesn't need to be THAT different.

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@Brainsick Sure sounds cool, but why? Twitter is well known name

Because he's a wealthy dingus who thinks he's a genius? Who the hell knows what he's attempting to accomplish. It'll definitely affect search engine traffic in a negative way.

@mr_MADAFAKA

I mean Facebook did the same thing. Maybe it's to help distract from some of the negative press they've been getting. I don't have any proof for this, and I kinda just made it up on the spot, but I could see it being the case. Either way, I agree it's a stupid decision. Meta at least had the sense to change only the name of the company, and not the well-known product itself.