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The icing on the cake: Microsoft owns a trademark for X. So Musk has destroyed a loved and strong brand, for potential years of litigation, and potentially no brand.
You mean he didn't even make sure he owned the trademark before publicly rebranding the company? Absolute brain genius businessman we've got here.
I'm pretty sure the lawyer team got decimated in the Twitter layoffs because they weren't generating revenue lol
this wasn't even planned long enough in advance for DNS changes to propagate. he's so fucking incompetent
Isn't that like 72 hours? That means the full company rebrand started planning on like Friday for a monday implementation? Lmao.
it depends what the TTLs (time to lives) were set to before. it has been a while, but best practice when I was fiddling with DNS was to reduce your TTLs in the leadup to a change, do the change, then extend your TTLs once things are working properly
I wonder if Twitter's lawyers weren't consulted, or if they were all laid off
I think when Elon wants to do something - he simply does it. And now I'm wondering how Twitter's lawyers learn what's going on. My wild hunch is that they find out what Elon has already done the way that everybody else does. From the news.
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This is the kind of planning I look for in a prospective banking institution. - Hexbear
He could always revert. GAP had a lousy rebrand they axed within a week due to public backlash and they're still chugging. Of course, I don't think there was a mob of nuGAP sycophants hugoboxing it, nor did the person in charge of the decision have cringe levels off the charts
The Gap logo design fiasco was pretty funny and definitely a classic example of "What the fuck were they thinking?"
Show
X is more than a logo, it's an idea, you may kill the man (Musk) but you will never kill the idea (unhinged racism and lots of money)
"it's the future!!! People have smartphones!!! We gotta look fresh and modern!!!"
Everyone:
I didn't notice rhe new one was GAP with a gap between the letters. I hate it.
I think to myself, "surely this Bazinga Brained adventure will stop people throwing money at Musk", and yet again, people throw money at Musk.
Well considering it he farmed it from one of his reply guys that claimed it used to be their podcast logo, I'd say this all sounds about right actually.
How do you fuck up so hard you choose an existing Unicode character
"𝕏 is such a cool and mysterious name, I can't believe no one else thought to use it yet! I guess it's just because I'm such an advanced genius..."hexbear: no unicode character
𝕏: has unicode symbol
nuff said, nerds.
Bonus: and you thought SEO and finding search results for a name like "X" would be worse than Element and Matrix? Well now you can just type 𝕏 instead!
𝕏
Everybody's google results are different and I watch a ton of movies but when I googled that - this horror movie was on the first page...
In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.
I wonder if the movie gets a bump from Elon brain genius behavior.
Everybody's google results are different
Yep so even beyond that personalization, I don't know the details of how each search engine works (I don't even default Google) but many will just interpret it literally as a normal 'x', especially if you don't write something like "unicode" or "blackboard bold" after it. Many search engines will 'normalize' the text to prevent things not showing up because you wrote naive instead of naïve, or 𝕩 instead of 𝕏.
I wonder if the movie gets a bump from Elon brain genius behavior.
There is a notable theory that Berkshire-Hathaway stock keeps getting bumped up by news-scanning and social-media scanning speculation bots whenever Anne Hathaway movies came out.
Maybe bots will think that people are horrified by X and disinvest.
melon was actually just trying to extend the natural numbers (blackboard bold N) to include infinity, but his dumb ass skipped analysis and he didn't know ordinals already existed.
Xerox used the same kind of X with the thin / and thick \\ for about half a century until their most recent logo redesign. Musk copied the damn copier logo.
Musk copied
He joins Jobs and Gates in doing IP piracy on Xerox. Of course - Elon is many decades late to the party.
I think you mean "innovation." As it seems that things that were stolen years ago are now "new ideas" again. All the fake reasons that companies feel the need to make weird and pointless changes to things. Just to then un-do those changes in a few years and act like the shit they were already doing before is some mega leap forward. The changes allow folks that really really want to climb the latter fast as fuck with putting their spin on things that make worker's lives suck with extra nonsense BUT sound somehow amazing on paper to the bosses (that also tend to not know how the shit works to begin with at this point) for promotions. All before shit breaks and they then re-pitch the old shit as "making the business more streamlined." So many of these companies feel like they "need" to change their logos and act like it is some super deep meaning (though in Elon's case it is likely both "deep" and for laughs/"dunking" on someone somewhere). But they all just end up copying each other in major design elements. Like Google's weirdly proportioned and oddly HR looking cartoon people are in HR e-learnings I have to take at work and across so many IoT brands and services.
It's funny, but, unless the penalty is being fined 300 billion dollars or being shot into the sun, I think the asshole will survive
Did I read correctly that he’s also trying to turn twitter Into Venmo at the same time?
Oh great, the power and ubiquity of Tencent without a government able to regulate it. Good thing it's not gonna happen.
If we did a heckin communism would it be easier to just give wechat to everyone?
Every tech billionaire wants that at this point. The scary part is that Meta and Zuckerberg have been the most successful at this
More of a western WeChat. Which is what Zuckerberg wants to do with Meta as well.
Given that Facebook marketplace actually exists, and banks in my country make use of WhatsApp, Meta is actually making some progress here.
