Re:Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
by divbzero on Monday July 24, 2023 @11:12AM
(#36849307)
> the logo looks too much like the button you click to close your browser
… which is exactly what many us do now whenever we hit the paywall.
Re:Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
by bleepblop on Monday July 24, 2023 @12:00PM
(#36850080)
Reminds me of the OS X logo honestly. Maybe apple has a leg to stand on in terms of trademark? Though I find that highly doubtful due to it being a letter of the alphabet.
Re:Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
by simplicio on Monday July 24, 2023 @12:04PM
(#36850139)
Think the x.org foundation has the better claim, since they pronounce the name the same way (think OS X is "OS ten", from what I recall), and their logo is closer.
Re:Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
by bleepblop on Monday July 24, 2023 @12:09PM
(#36850231)
Understandably and I concur. However, I haven't met anyone outside of the apple company that would pronounce it OS 10. That being said, they don't even use the nomenclature anymore.
Re:Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
by vmladenov on Monday July 24, 2023 @01:54PM
(#36851788)
I came over to Snow Leopard from Windows and always thought OS X til I heard it at a WWDC. Later, I met professors that had used OS 9, System 7, etc. and they always said OS 10 consistently.
Re:Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
by whywhywhywhy on Monday July 24, 2023 @02:49PM
(#36852615)
OS X was never an X it was a roman numeral 10 and when used on its own it was mostly serif.
Pretty sure apples own presentations used “OS Ten” not “OS Ecks”
Re:Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
by foooorsyth on Monday July 24, 2023 @04:50PM
(#36854011)
But users definitely said “OS Ecks” and “iPhone Ecks”. Using X to represent 10 is a branding disaster. Doesn’t matter if you get it straight in your keynote that only nerds watch.
Re:Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
by slimebot80 on Monday July 24, 2023 @08:44PM
(#36856292)
Nah, I'll be saying eXcrete over tweet from now on. It's on brand.
Still, while the social network was presuambly the most valuable part of Twitter, gotta figure the brand was a non-trivial part of the 44 billion Musk paid to buy the company. Seems crazy to toss it after a few months.
Also, the new brand is bad. if someone told me to check out "x.com", I would assume they were directing me to a porn site. And the logo looks too much like the button you click to close your browser.