Twitter rebrands to X in latest 5D chess move

In a surprising move, Twitter has rebranded to X and removed the bird logo. Let's look at recent developments with Twitter and Meta's threads and what this means for the future of the Internet.

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[wlockuz]

It was borrowed from SpaceX. SpaceX will now be rebranded as Space.

[Barbnius]

Gotta love taking some of the most instantly recognizable branding and replacing it with something he cant even trademark. A fucking letter

[TuTAH_]

I knew that companies will eventually patent and sue each other for basic geometric figures (as logos) but it never occurred to me that the letters of the alphabet would suffer the same fate

[invalid_user_handle]

And I thought Facebook renaming itself to Meta was stupid. At least that was only on the company-side and not the actual platform itself...

[lamsmiley]

It will be interesting to see how many people delete the app not realising that it’s twitter

[frostpunk]

The videos on X are now gonna be called "X videos" 💀

[nameu]

Great move. With Threads as a competitor, all Twitter has left is their brand recognition. So it's definitely a good idea to get rid of it

[Moocow]

the X logo looks like something I'd put together in two minutes for a first year web dev project.

[the-boy-who-lived]

2:13 Bro you phone screen got me rolling 😂

[JacbIAm]

The density of jokes per second in your videos is off the charts. Just amazing content.

[sandimaj]

This literally comes at a time when I have never been more keen to be off digital platforms specifically social media I have a feeling we will look back at this time and wish we did things differently

[wlockuz]

I am genuinely wondering how he plans to rebrand Tweets. "To Tweet" was the side-effect of the product being called Twitter but now with it being called X what will it be called, "Marking the spot"?

[Necro_Hexual]

"My idea was, 'what if we just copy WeChat." Truly the greatest mind of our time.

[Leathal]

That “smart/dumb/ugly/hot” compass is genius

[ThePlayerOfGames]

The fact that people might *have* start using TOR to access an uncensored internet fills me with joy and trepidation

[walterhoughton]

You no longer Tweet something, you X-press it!

[MrChaluliss]

Twitter without the bird feels like some knockoff bullshit. Which is appropriate at this point. I wonder if the rebranding is going to hurt twitter or not, as it seems like a real step down aesthetically for the brand.

[MarvinPowell]

Well, that's one way to kill Twitter; figuratively and literally.

[VisualBasic]

Idk about a new logo, but I've been trying to close the app with the big X for 30 minutes with no luck.

[sjkba]

How are you this spot on with your videos every single time?!? That social media graph is hilarious!