Social Media Platform X

[suzyne]

I am told that the typical user here is not interested in social media, so this may be of little concern. But I find branding is an interesting topic and this captured my attention as Twitter appears to be on an aggressive path of re-invention. Link to news report: X

Good luck with that!

[back2themoon]

Not a Twitter user, but isn't its name and the tweeting bird a conceptual and strongly recognisable brand?

This X looks like a very bad decision and it wouldn't be first one recently. As for the X itself as a name and logo, for me it is plain stupid and refers to low, sub-standard porn-quality stuff with zero imagination. I know Musk has a thing for the X - it is bad. You just can't transform something established like this for no serious reason. Unless you actually want it to go down.

[moonbat]

You just can't transform something established like this for no serious reason.

Remember this is the guy who named his son after the noise that a modem makes when establishing a dialup connection

[Night Wing]

The way I look at it, since Musk bought it, he can change the name to anything he likes. After all, he paid something like 44 billion dollars for Twitter.

As for people complaining about the name change to "X", they might not like the name change, but they will still use the platform. As an analogy, it is no different than people complaining about the Windows operating system owned by Microsoft. Many people complain about the Windows operating system changing things on it they don't like, but they still use it.

I complained about the Windows operating system too, but when I saw Windows 8, that was the last straw that broke the camel's back for me. That is when I kicked Windows to the curb and went over to the "Dark Side" and installed different linux distros on all of my four computers to see which one I liked the best.

I don't use social media platforms. I grew up without them. Speaking just for myself, I need social media like I need Death and more taxes. My free time is spent outdoors when I'm participating in my hobbies (archery, standup paddle boarding, surfing waves on my longboard, snorkeling, fishing, beachcombing, etc).

[Mæstro]

The disruptions with Nitter which I had reported some weeks ago have ended. My proxies work as normal. I speak more naturally of Nitter, Invidious and Teddit than Twitter, YouTube or Reddit, clarifying what these are only for strangers who do not know these. The proxy is more imminent to me. There are many Nitter instances, and many adopt their own names. One who prefers some other instance might use that name instead; we use the most relevant, meaningful names to us. Calling Twitter X because Musk said so is like calling Turkey Türkiye in languages other than Turkish because Erdoğan said so. Do any of us refer to Google as Alphabet or Facebook as Meta?

[Lucio Chiappetti]

Don't care at all about any "social" and so about this product of Mr. Musk's (I may do care positively of the fact one of his organizations launched ESA's Euclid satellite, and negatively for the adverse effect his satellite constellations may have on ground-based optical and radio astronomy) ... but X and the X logo are not belonging to the X.org consortium (aka X11) ?

[Potkeny]

... but X and the X logo are not belonging to the X.org consortium (aka X11) ?

I didn't actually check the sources, but I guess there will be some legal fun between them.

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[suzyne]

I think the "X" is a desperate and poorly planned attempt to get media attention after all the focus and hype on Threads (which is from his Facebook/meta rival) and is getting millions of signups

one of his organizations launched ESA's Euclid satellite

This got me thinking... Space X is one of Musk's more successful companies, so maybe he is hoping for some synergy by reusing part of that name, for his social media, after all?

Off-topic:

My free time is spent outdoors when I'm participating in my hobbies

Being outdoors needn't prevent you, with a generous data plan and the social medias on your phone, you can do both! Although you may want to get one of those water proof bags used by photographers with all your interest in actiivities near the water.

[Night Wing]

Off-topic:

My free time is spent outdoors when I'm participating in my hobbies

Being outdoors needn't prevent you, with a generous data plan and the social medias on your phone, you can do both! Although you may want to get one of those water proof bags used by photographers with all your interest in actiivities near the water.

Off-topic:
Remember up top when I said I grew up without social media? Well, I grew up without any smartphones as well. The only phone I have is an old flip style clam shell cell phone. This phone is not connected to the internet and to keep all those dumb scam calls at (pardon the pun) "bay" (water related ) I never set up a voice mailbox for it either. To top it off, it is always turned "off".

I only turn the phone on to make a call as in "call my wife and tell her my truck hit a soft spot on the beach and it is stuck in the sand. Once the truck is unstuck and I'm back on the road heading home, I call my wife and tell her what my ETA is". Then I turn the phone off again. Ah, silence is golden without having to deal with unwanted, PITA scam calls.

The last time I turned my antiquated cell phone on was three weeks ago when I was at the beach to tell my wife I was going to stay an extra hour because the waves that day were "too good to leave". Instead of "one last ride", it became "one more ride". After that one hour, I left for home, called my wife to tell her I was on my way back home and then as usual for me.........I turned my cell phone off again.

BTW, my cell phone is in a bag and it is located underneath my truck attached to the frame in a well hidden place where it can't be seen if someone would look underneath my truck, when I'm out on my single fin 9'3" longboard surfing the waves.

[suzyne]

Off-topic:

Remember up top when I said I grew up without social media? Well, I grew up without any smartphones as well. The only phone I have is an old flip style clam shell cell phone. This phone is not connected to the internet

Seriously, you have my respect. And since that clearly works for you I am impressed. I am old enough to not have had a smartphone when growing up, but can't imagine not using one now.

[Lucio Chiappetti]

Off-topic:

Remember up top when I said I grew up without social media? Well, I grew up without any smartphones as well. The only phone I have is an old flip style clam shell cell phone. This phone is not connected to the internet

Me too. Until I retired I had also no computer at home (but I was at office for some 10 hours). As soon as I retired I got a desktop and a Tplink router. And when I'm away for more than one day I now carry a laptop and the same router with me.

[athenian200]

This got me thinking... Space X is one of Musk's more successful companies, so maybe he is hoping for some synergy by reusing part of that name, for his social media, after all?

You'd think he would call it SocialX, then, not just X. X is way too ambiguous IMO.

Then again, I've never liked Twitter and always thought it was the worst form of social media because there is no real way to organize things and the messages are too short.

[Moonchild]

Let's make a Twitter clone and call it "A" -- it'll always be above "X" in alphabetical listings and promotions

[Mæstro]

Off-topic:
[quote=suzyne post_id=241610 time=1690321297 user_id=24303]
Seriously, you have my respect. And since that clearly works for you I am impressed. I am old enough to not have had a smartphone when growing up, but can't imagine not using one now.

I am barely old enough not to have had one as a child, though I had as an adolescent. I have always found touchscreens and portrait mode awkward; their enforcement, as well as forced software upgrades, had brought me to despise the smartphone. I had got rid of mine in July 2019 and have had a traditional clamshell since. It only uses 4G networks to transmit MMS and for use as a hotspot, which has been an invaluable backup modem at times. When I am back in Germany, I am considering even simpler devices.
I wish English would use ‘handy’ for mobiles like we do.[/offtopic]

[somdcomputerguy]

Off-topic:
I'm seriously thinking about getting this great app for my smartphone that lets one make phone calls..I just might use it once in a while too, depends on what its' little icon looks like though..

[Night Wing]

Somehow my last post got placed in the wrong topic.