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Twitter is transforming into X, as the site’s former bird logo has now been replaced by an official new X logo. Elon Musk, who owns the transformed social media site, began signaling the change early Sunday morning with a series of tweets, starting with one that said, “and soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.”
Couldn’t even pay for the new logo…
Twitter replaced the logo after Musk requested for people to post logo submissions and that “if a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we’ll make go live worldwide tomorrow.” Musk then pinned a tweet featuring a video created by a Twitter user named Sawyer Merritt and changed his own profile photo to the new X logo. Musk did note that the new X logo is an “interim” one, so it could be replaced at a later stage.
Uh, what? There’s gotta be some copyright issues with doing this…
How? He’s owned “X” for decades. It was the name of his first company. Dude is obsessed with calling everything X.
The current logo is a copy of the one from XOrg Foundation.
The twitter branding was one of the few things actually going for it. Oh look a cute birdie, oh look the house is a birdhouse! GET IT!
Now it’s, an X? A meaningless X? With a birdhouse home icon and bird-related words everywhere?
It looks close enough like a swastika that he can sell merch easier to his fanbase. Armband sales are gonna go through the roof
I’ve never been more sure of my decision to move to the fediverse. Y’all still on Twitter should go make a mastodon account
Is there a recognized excellent guide for non-techy-people-moving-from-twitter-to-mastodon?
I don’t twit, but I can see how it would still baffle the average user.
https://joinfediverse.wiki/Getting_started_with_your_Fediverse_account
Also, if they miss quote-tweets there’s Firefish, which is still on ActivityPub and can talk to Mastodon, that has quote-posts.
Link? Google doesn’t seem to know about it and neither do I
Oh, so it’s basically one and the same with Calckey, being the software powering it. Gotcha.
@garrettw87 Calckey rebranded as Firefish last week. And managed a way smoother transition than Xwitter has.
Well, it’s not hard to do lol