As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk’s favorite letter “X,” its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.
As Twitter ditches its iconic branding in favor of owner Elon Musk’s favorite letter “X,” its open source competitor Mastodon is once again seeing usage numbers soar.
Twitter hasn’t even rebranded yet and an article like this comes out? Jumping the gun a bit don’t they think?
99% of the people that were leaving twitter when musk took over are still there. They’re too invested to leave. People like Steven King just keep making fools of themselves by still being there 12 months later complaining about how bad Twitter is.
It did though? Twitter.com no longer shows the bird (replaced by an X). It’s loading screen is a stylised X. And x.com points to the same server.
The app is still called twitter with the bird logo, at least on iOS.
Also what it’s called is irrelevant. It’s still twitter, it’ll still behave the same, it’s still got the 500 million users. Why would anyone leave a platform simply because it changed names and url?
Usually a rebrand signifies a change in the direction or focus of the brand. I don’t keep up with it much, so on a surface level this rebrand seems like more of a “I like it better this way” on Elon’s part than a true rebrand with a point and reason.
What it’s called isn’t irrelevant. Twitter blue, tweeting, Twitter and tweets are all linked to Twitter and not to X. And X is what it’s called now. So post on X and follow me on X.
Just because the App on iOS and or android haven’t been updated to reflect that change doesn’t mean it hasn’t been rebranded yet.
How it will affect the users? Well that’s to be seen. The first waves of Userscripts surely will follow soon to replace X with the bird in browsers.
Edit: just checked the twitter App on the android play store may still be named by such but is now owned by X Corp. The most generic name ever.
Why is what it’s named relevant? Twitter blue will be renamed. Functionally nothing will change.
Check out the app or webpage, they’ve already put in the temp X logo
The app is still called twitter with the twitter logo, at least on iOS.
Well they started taking down the Twitter sign at HQ, so it’s happening
I’m not denying that it’s happening, I’m simply saying that the rebrand hasn’t even happened on the main way people interact with twitter, yet we have article after article saying that people are leaving in droves because of the rebrand…that they haven’t seen yet.
These people are addicted to such a degree that they’re functionally on the same level as literal junkies, just without the physical damage. Social media was such a fucking mistake, and I don’t think we’re ever going to recover from it within our lifetime.
Ted Kaczynski was right.
I mean, yeah. The only ‘social media’ I have is kbin, and I check it once or twice a day. If it went anywhere, I wouldn’t really give a shit, as I left all the major platforms years ago and adding one more to that list wouldn’t bother me. Don’t group me in with Twitter (x?) users because I called them out on their addiction, when I’ve already done what they seemingly can’t.