But... why? You can't force some entity to call itself differently than it calls itself. Sure, you can refer to it as Twitter, we all will. But it's like pissing in the wind to constantly seek to patch and revert its branding.
Plus likely they'll revert it when the investors and creditors out Elon, because he's clearly not well and driving it into the ground.
Eh, Twitter is much worse now for sure, but depending on the folks you follow, there's still some solid up-to-date news/takes/insights there. In general, it's not great though.
Primarily that he's the second richest man in the world. Don't get me wrong, I don't think he's self-made, I don't think he did it all on his own, yadda yadda. But a stupid person would not be where he is in life.
When I said percentage-wise, I really meant percentage of Musk critics, not the percentage of twitter users. I have no idea what the demographic of twitter users actually looks like.
But I do often see people claiming that others who are upset by various things Musk has done as being motivated by "hating Musk" when it's pretty clear they're motivated by being angry at something Musk has done rather than some blind hate.
The domain is probably going to move to x.com soon. But at least this fixes the godawful favicon he chose that sticks out like a sore thumb on my bookmarks bar.
I think post-Elon Twitter has been surprisingly good. It's a lot less spammy and there seems to be much less e-drama rubbernecking than before. Feels like most of the people I talk to are regular humans who occasionally go outside and touch grass.
These are not things I would say about pre-Elon twitter.
I see it as counter performance art. It's silly, fun, and useless, because installing random extensions for petty motives is increasing your attack surface unnecesarily. It's almost as if it wasn't made to be used, but as a statement.
This takes me back when Yahoo! started to add their logo to Flickr’s a year or so after the acquisition. I think someone made a Firefox extension I downloaded. It’s amazing how attached we all can get to certain logos.
I feel like I’m in the minority but I honestly couldn’t care less about the logo, the name or if Twitter will still exist for another 10 or 20 years. Nothing lasts in life. With or without Musk Twitter would have died of some reason or another eventually. It’s only a stupid app, it’s not important. If someone feels it’s very important to them then they have a problem in life which is not Musk. I didn’t even sign up to Mastodon, Bluesky or Threads. Twitter is interesting at times but I won’t cry if it’s gone.
As a normal person I couldn't agree more, but look at it from a business or indiehacker point of view. If you use Twitter to share your work and connect with potential customers, it's a bit of a loss. It would be similar to creators or streamers if someone were to buy YouTube or Twitch and potentially ruin it.
"We shouldn't care" does not necessarily follow from "nothing lasts". The loss of various impermanent things have caused me (and most people) a great deal of sadness.
A jackass with far more money and power than respect for it or anything else is tearing down a place where I have had a great number of memorable, fun, or significant interactions. There are important people in my life who very likely would not be if not for Twitter, including my spouse. Through Twitter I have helped connect people in ways that made significant changes to their lives. So yes, I'm sad, I'm frustrated, I'm annoyed, I'm angry, and I don't think it's irrational to feel those ways. I'm also annoyed at people acting superior because they're lucky enough to not be affected.
What I'd really like to read is some analysis of whatever makes people care enough to make that...I saw the 𝕏 and literally thought "well, that's an interesting symbol, Elon probably did that, whatever" and went on with my day..
Encode the image and and you could do this with CSS as a userstyle.
Most of the work is done for you though, the "old" logo is still all over the site. Click "X Corp. > About the company" and you're greeted with a giant bird, and Twitter is what’s happening...". It's clear there wasn't a plan to roll out the rebrand.
If I was Zuckerberg, I'd rename Threads into Twitter tomorrow. Get the Twitter brand deregistered because of inactivity now that Musk officially abandoned it, then immediately register it for himself. Sue Musk for the domain right after acquiring the name.
Surely going to cost a fortune in lawyers, but who cares?
That very much would not work. Twitter is still called Twitter all over it's site, the trademark has clearly not been abandoned. All that does is destroy Threads
Then wait until Musk's minions have removed every occurrence. They will act quickly, because Musk fires them if he finds Twitter anywhere on X's site in a week or so.
The thing is: Zuckerberg just has to act faster than the collective global audience can forget about the verb "tweeting". That will be easy, because such terms are very sticky once they enter the common vocabulary.
Just not using a trademark is not possible. You must use and actively defend it in order to keep it. An unused trademark can be reported for deletion by competitors.
Otherwise anyone with money could just trademark billions of auto-generated names and wait for someone to start a business, then selling them a name.
> Otherwise anyone with money could just trademark billions of auto-generated names and wait for someone to start a business, then selling them a name.
Welcome to the dotcom bubble. You're describing literally what's going on with the domain parking industry.
A domain is not a trademark. If you own a trademark, you can sue the holder of the corresponding domain to get it. The domain grabbing business works not by trademark grabbing, but by offering the domain a little cheaper (and quicker) than the price of the lawsuit necessary to get it after trademark registration. And of course by grabbing non-trademarkable generic domains, especially in the dot com era.
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Plus likely they'll revert it when the investors and creditors out Elon, because he's clearly not well and driving it into the ground.
But I do often see people claiming that others who are upset by various things Musk has done as being motivated by "hating Musk" when it's pretty clear they're motivated by being angry at something Musk has done rather than some blind hate.
You can tell that by the behavior of the one of them who bought it. ;)
edit: also, shouldn't it just be a tampermonkey script?
These are not things I would say about pre-Elon twitter.
Years? You are being generous here. I would rephrase that to 10 to 20 months at the rate he's destroying everything.
A jackass with far more money and power than respect for it or anything else is tearing down a place where I have had a great number of memorable, fun, or significant interactions. There are important people in my life who very likely would not be if not for Twitter, including my spouse. Through Twitter I have helped connect people in ways that made significant changes to their lives. So yes, I'm sad, I'm frustrated, I'm annoyed, I'm angry, and I don't think it's irrational to feel those ways. I'm also annoyed at people acting superior because they're lucky enough to not be affected.
Most of the work is done for you though, the "old" logo is still all over the site. Click "X Corp. > About the company" and you're greeted with a giant bird, and Twitter is what’s happening...". It's clear there wasn't a plan to roll out the rebrand.
Surely going to cost a fortune in lawyers, but who cares?
The thing is: Zuckerberg just has to act faster than the collective global audience can forget about the verb "tweeting". That will be easy, because such terms are very sticky once they enter the common vocabulary.
Otherwise anyone with money could just trademark billions of auto-generated names and wait for someone to start a business, then selling them a name.
Welcome to the dotcom bubble. You're describing literally what's going on with the domain parking industry.
Realistically it's not complicated or difficult.