Twitter is transforming into X, as the site’s former bird logo has now been replaced by an official new X logo. Elon Musk, who owns the transformed social media site, began signaling the change early Sunday morning with a series of tweets, starting with one that said, “and soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.”
I’ve never been more sure of my decision to move to the fediverse. Y’all still on Twitter should go make a mastodon account
Is there a recognized excellent guide for non-techy-people-moving-from-twitter-to-mastodon?
I don’t twit, but I can see how it would still baffle the average user.
I don’t know about guides, but I do agree it can be a little confusing. Trying to work out what instances are and which one you should join is difficult until you understand the concept and a little about how the tech works - it’s the same with the threadiverse. Realising it’s like email domains is what made it click for me.
And if you personally ever decide to get into Mastodon: you’re on kbin already, which federates with Mastodon and has support for microblogging, so you don’t even need to do anything new - you just need to start using that functionality on kbin!
Yeah I just know a lot of people who barely understand passwords, and moving to a new platform that isn’t exactly the same is going to be a frustrating exercise which ends in them staying on the old platform. It needs to look, act, and feel like twitter in all the ways they’re used to for it to carry the largest group of non-savvy users.
And remember they don’t read manuals or FAQs or anything, so . . maybe a viral tiktok or youtube something, I dunno.
https://joinfediverse.wiki/Getting_started_with_your_Fediverse_account
Also, if they miss quote-tweets there’s Firefish, which is still on ActivityPub and can talk to Mastodon, that has quote-posts.
Link? Google doesn’t seem to know about it and neither do I
Oh, so it’s basically one and the same with Calckey, being the software powering it. Gotcha.
@garrettw87 Calckey rebranded as Firefish last week. And managed a way smoother transition than Xwitter has.
Well, it’s not hard to do lol
And yet every journalist, youtuber, podcaster or creator complaining about it will do everything in their power to find an excuse not to leave.
Because that’s still where all the people are
I rest my case
Okay then
The twitter branding was one of the few things actually going for it. Oh look a cute birdie, oh look the house is a birdhouse! GET IT!
Now it’s, an X? A meaningless X? With a birdhouse home icon and bird-related words everywhere?
As has been pointed out elsewhere on the net, the Twitter branding was the most valuable part besides the already existing userbase. Having “tweeting” and as a verb in everyday English has been a godsend marketing specialists can only dream of and it has become so prevalent in news and journalism, it’s both hilarious and depressing.
Elon is really working to make the dream of mainstream Mastodon and a big fediverse a reality.
start tootin’ everyone lets make it catch on…
Nah, people will move to Threads or Blusky not Mastodon.
It looks close enough like a swastika that he can sell merch easier to his fanbase. Armband sales are gonna go through the roof
He killed the blue canary in the outlet by the light switch. Where is the birdhouse in our soul now?
Omg, it’s “outlet by the lightswitch!” I’ve been trying to decipher that line for years!
I know these articles get made but they don’t have to get posted.
I’d like to see more news about tech, and less news about social media
Couldn’t even pay for the new logo…
Twitter replaced the logo after Musk requested for people to post logo submissions and that “if a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we’ll make go live worldwide tomorrow.” Musk then pinned a tweet featuring a video created by a Twitter user named Sawyer Merritt and changed his own profile photo to the new X logo. Musk did note that the new X logo is an “interim” one, so it could be replaced at a later stage.
Uh, what? There’s gotta be some copyright issues with doing this…
How? He’s owned “X” for decades. It was the name of his first company. Dude is obsessed with calling everything X.
I think he means the artwork for the letter since the font is commercially available?
US copyright law doesn’t allow for protection of something like that. A dingbat, yes, but if it’s very plainly recognizable as an X then the exact shape and output of that typeface isn’t protectable. You can even print out a font, scan it, and create a new copycat font from it. The only thing you can’t do is reproduce the actual typeface file itself, which is fundamentally a single copyrighted piece of software. Some other countries allow more protection on the shapes of individual letters, but I don’t think you’d ever win a case anywhere on such a simple geometric shape as this X.
The current logo is a copy of the one from XOrg Foundation.
Not really; the XOrg logo is clearly designed in two parts, with a break between the two sections. It’s absolutely reminiscent of it, though, just different enough that you can’t really call it a copy.
Funny that he doesn’t own x.com
Unless it’s since changed hands again, he did actually buy the domain back from PayPal ~6 years ago: https://www.techspot.com/news/70077-elon-musk-buys-back-xcom-paypal.html
It’s why x.com currently redirects to twitter.
That’s just privacy protection. I own a few domains, and none of the whois information points to me personally.
I mean, a functional company would have made it a legit co tests with terms/Conditions so that they owned every submission or at least the winner.
Musk probably just sent the tweet and picked a winner, so yeah, they may not own it and if they start using it the creator may be able to sue.
Xtinct is what’s going to happen
He scared off a large portion of developers, killed third party clients, destroyed validated users via monetization, let bad actors back onto the platform, and thrown away iconic branding for edge lord bullshit. Manchurian CEO.
Isn’t that the old Xerox logo?
Buy one of the most recognisable brands on the planet and then just toss it overboard and replace it with something totally bland. Only a true business genius could come up with an idea like that.
He’s wanted an X company for so long - it feels like something from a teenager desperately trying to be edgy.
He got x.com in 1999, trying to make an online bank. He then bought/merged with a company that was doing an online payment system, envisioning it as part of X, but that got rebranded to PayPal and ended up being spun off separately, ultimately bought by eBay. The online bank thing failed.
I think he’s probably going to try to make Twitter the base for a new online bank thing, but I hope not too many people are dumb enough to trust their money to Musk.
Musk is one of the biggest cretins I have ever witnessed. Why is he destroying an easily identified, well known brand logo and replacing it with an X?
I wonder what the equivalent to a “tweet” is going to be.
He’s already said tweets will now be known as X’s.
Great isn’t it?
