07-25-2023, 05:21 PM
(07-24-2023, 05:14 AM)huckleton Wrote: something i forgot about the shittification of twitter is how likely it is by making a normal tweet that you get bombarded by bots. somehow twitter bots are like 500x angering than tumblr, i roll my eyes at tumblr bots but twitter bots make me actively mad
I started experiencing this towards the tail end of me being on Twitter, and it really made me feel like punching something, holy shit.
theabstruseone@Tumblr Wrote:I slept in and just woke up, so here's what I've been able to figure out while sipping coffee:
- Twitter has officially rebranded to X just a day or two after the move was announced.
- The official branding is that a tweet is now called "an X", for which there are too many jokes to make.
- The official account is still @twitter because someone else owns @X and they didn't reclaim the username first.
- The logo is ? which is the Unicode character Unicode U+1D54F so the logo cannot be copyrighted and it is highly likely that it cannot be protected as a trademark.
- Outside the visual logo, the trademark for the use of the name "X" in social media is held by Meta/Facebook, while the trademark for "X" in finance/commerce is owned by Microsoft.
- The rebranding has been stopped in Japan as the term "X Japan" is trademarked by the band X JAPAN.
- Elon had workers taking down the "Twitter" name from the side of the building. He did not have any permits to do this. The building owner called the cops who stopped the crew midway through so the sign just says "er".
- He still plans to call his streaming and media hosting branch of the company as "Xvideo". Nobody tell him.
This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.
Point #7 is some Bojack Horseman "Hollywoo" bullshit.
I think something making me really mad about this right now is that the website title and URL is still Twitter, so like, the logo is perfectly happy making no fucking sense.