Ars TechnicaMusk rushes out new Twitter logo—it’s just an X that someone tweeted at him
X logo looks like a Unicode symbol and the lower-case x from a Monotype font.
Bryson@arstechnica once again I ask: is this a “Brewster’s Millions” type situation? It’s the only reasonable explanation.
Charlie Mcintosh@arstechnica isn’t that the X Windows logo?
Camiel Hirschberg@zappaszep @arstechnica close but that one has a white line in the middle so it's not the litteral math symbol, because, surprise, they didn't rush out their design on a coke fueled twitter night rampage.
Ielenia🏳️⚧️ is now on Sharkey@zappaszep @arstechnica
For the unfamiliar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3AX.Org_Logo.svg
They are very similar
Tor Lillqvist@arstechnica I am no friend of Musk, but still, sheesh.
For instance, look at your own logo as used in your profile here. OMG, it's just the three Unicode symbols "a", "r", and "s", in a specific font!!!
Mark Roszko@tml @arstechnica But they are at least made a logo out of a three letter word instead of a single letter lol
Flyin' The Flannel@arstechnica
Thanks I hate it.
Thanks I hate it.
Thomas Traynor@[email protected] (e)X company, (e)Xterminate, (e)Xtinct, (e)Xpunge, (e)Xhume. The list is long :)
Just Jo@arstechnica Ignoring the awful logo: Imagine making a logo for a giant company with billions of dollars. For free
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@JoTheBuzzyard @arstechnica how else do you get a normal person ticket to ElonBase on the moon?
420@arstechnica Space X and now just X, the bird is now official eXit… Twitter is dead. Long live X… but although I never used Twitter, the bird got more of my sympathy then a fucking X. What is his next step? He already is polluting space with his Starlink trains for the 1%.
Shhalahr@arstechnica Given how Spez admitted he is following Musk's lead, I can't wait to see how this gets applied to #Reddit.
Chloe Tse 
@shhalahr oooh forgot about that. Maybe R? Y? Z? Or maybe S just because it sounds like "Ass"? Seems to align to their pathetic sense of humour
@arstechnica how does this post appear to only have 1 favorite (me) but many comments?
Ryan Ormrod@arstechnica Tis a bit poop, no more Twitter :( just some silly x.com...
TomskyPartizan
random thoughtsHe is really a fucking idiot, isn't he?
@arstechnica is it just me or does that end quote by Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino read like something in a movie backstory about a cartoonishly evil corporation
Inverse ATASCII@arstechnica looks like the x-windows X to me.
BenW@arstechnica looks like the x in the logo of a formal Belgian-French bank (that ended badly...)
Rev. Dr. Mazigazi@arstechnica weak and uninspired at best. So glad I deleted my account there!
Chris Lajiness@arstechnica there’s no way he isn’t crashing Twitter on purpose.
Shantanu Kulkarny@arstechnica The man seems singularly focused to destroy the brand utterly
Tomáš Blaho 🇨🇿🇪🇺🦁@arstechnica He wanted Z but it was taken.
Young Garlic Knot@arstechnica concerning
Nihl L'Amas@arstechnica The fact that he had to crowdsource "use a generic unicode character" is just one more example of how Musk has never had an original idea in his life. Even the really stupid ideas are probably things he heard from his idiot followers.
Lee 🌏@arstechnica
This is a very strange move by Linda Yaccarino!
On no, that's right, she's not actually the CEO, just a glorified Head of Marketing.
This is a very strange move by Linda Yaccarino!
On no, that's right, she's not actually the CEO, just a glorified Head of Marketing.
Severin S.@arstechnica it's just x. wow, so original! 🙄