SynecdocheTwitter is X now
JeenaDer erste Schritt zu West-WeeChat.
haben die auch ein hässliches logo?
KILL IT
KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!
loopsRIP AND TEAR
It looks so dark and edgy tacky.
flipLooks absolutely well-planned and not rushed at all, perfect alignment of the logo, proper copy. Definitely not just a hasty implementation of a fever dream.
He googled “X logo” and picked the first option he didn’t recognize
No, they copied Elon. Law suit coming soon.
GraniteYou might not need the s…
haychNo. It’s from Special Alphabets 4. twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1683428660915625989?…
What a special time to be alive.
🍀 Adastra 🐝
jarfilShouldn’t that link… go to x.com now? 🤣
I’m amazed at how many people think Twitter has copied the X Windows logo
Tom Warren is amazed that many people notice a new logo having almost exactly the same shape as a well-known, decades-old one. Tom Warren would like everyone to know how clever he is for noticing that it is also similar to an obscure font’s glyph for an obscure unicode character. Good for you, Tom Warren.
obscure font’s glyph for an obscure unicode character that has existed for roughly half as long
Standard monotype font
𝕏 - “mathematical double-struck capital X”
Added to Unicode in 2001, added to math in… who was the first mathematician in history to ever use it?
Yes, yes… it’s fine to acknowledge the existence of math notation that most people will never use.
Tom Warren chose to fixate on a specific typeface (not math) and use that as an excuse to criticize people for their valid comparison to something that predates it. He followed up by declaring that he was “right” and they were “wrong”. Is he a four-year-old? I can’t think of a more snide, self-aggrandizing way to participate in the conversation.
He was unnecessary, rude, and not even technically correct*, which is why he has earned my mocking comment in response.
*(We can see in the replies that the glyph he mentions is in fact not the same as the logo being discussed.)
OK, so maybe Tom Warren is not the most likable guy, or not one to defuse a controversy that can lead more people to his website.
But I think it is technically correct:
- There is both 𝕏 and 𝕩, not sure which one looks closer to the “formerly-called-Twitter” one, but they do look really close
- They do follow a way of writing that predates the X11 logo, I wouldn’t be surprised if the X11 logo itself was inspired by that too
- The glyphs appear just like that as part of the default Unicode typeface I’m using on my phone right now
I think the part we should take from this, is “Elon just wrote an x in a ‘1337 way’, and called it a logo”.
It’s not even centered?
Somehow, this is the bit that offends me most
MaolmiIt’s right of the center. So aligned with Elon’s politics…
Ha! Good one
I’m guessing that skill with Cascading Style Sheets is considered wasted time and effort at X, much like media relations, accessibility, and microservices.
I thought this was a joke.
This shit makes Elon look even more like a Bond villian than he already is.
That's giving him way too much credit. More like an Austin Powers villain, and even that is questionable.
Off Brand Scooby-Doo villain.
I wonder who's under the mask...
*Under the Musk
What’s next, Elon? Try to trademark the letter x?
SpicyPeaSoupElon on his way to sue X-ray manufacturers.
Rebrand to XXX
Elon can ask his ex-president mate to hook him up with some porn stars for twitter
Space X will rebrand to S
Tesla To E
Just so he gets his S E X "joke" on the second try.
AI he wanted to become the CEO of SEX al along. . .
BagginsWhy didn’t he just buy CEX?
Microsoft might have an issue with that.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology may also take issue.
TheYangyeah, well, even the @twitter account now has the X logo.
x.com redirects to twitter.com as well.
Wonder if Businesses will replace the twitter logo in their windows as well.
At this time, many businesses are indeed probably replacing their twitter logo, with either Mastodon, threads, or nothing as a replacement
Wonder if Businesses will replace the twitter logo in their windows as well.
I doubt they will for a while at least. This change was so sudden that a lot of people will just not know what X is. It doesn’t look like a social media icon and a lot of people will just not be familiar with it.
It’s also horribly forgettable, even if I did use X regularly, I might just forget what the icon looked like out of context.
AKA Twitter is now Fucked?
Was there a time it wasn't?
There was a time they let people send Tweets through SMS. It almost made sense back then.
Apparently Elon has a thing for the letter X. SpaceX, naming his son "X Æ A-12", and now renaming Twitter.
X.com was the startup Musk (and others) launched in 1999. It merged with another startup to create PayPal in 2000. Musk bought the X.com domain back a few years ago.
MaggiWuerzeBut SpaceX at least is only short for SpaceeXploration
Rikudou_SageYeah, nothing to do with a man-child giggling that it sounds like space-sex a bit.
But they don’t do exploration? They just do orbit stuff
Spac Explorathun.
JohnEdwaModel X is called that because he wanted the models to spell SEXY - but Ford still owns "Model E" so he had to go with S3XY instead.
What a tool.
Who could blame the greatest minds from being entranced by a mysterious “X”?
marco“Schadenfreude ist die beste Freude” :p
Facebook/Meta owns the trademark for “X” for use in social networking.
Microsoft owns the trademark for “X” for use in finance/e-commerce.
Apparently according to Elon his wife came up with most of the name
Can he legally change his son’s name to use the new x?
𝕏 Æ A-𝕏ii
They did a great job replacing a highly marketable icon with character, with something with something from the 80’s that doesn’t make sense at all, given the terminology of everything…
In other news, you need to log in to use twitter now? lol. Wow, genius