Twitter's 'X' name change has led to a decrease in App Store downloads

Re:Twitter's 'X' name change has led to a decrease in App St... by digitallis42 on Sunday August 27, 2023 @04:07PM (#37286155)

Much like "the artist formerly known as Prince", I have yet to hear a news outlet refer to the thing as anything other than "the company formerly known as Twitter".

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Re:Twitter's 'X' name change has led to a decrease in App St... by duskwuff on Sunday August 27, 2023 @05:28PM (#37286797)

Saying "fewer users are downloading X" (or whatever) just sounds like the author forgot to fill in a blank.

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Re:Twitter's 'X' name change has led to a decrease in App St... by joeframbach on Sunday August 27, 2023 @08:16PM (#37288075)

It's been several years and we still have to append "actually known as Square" to any mention of "Block". It's one of those glaring signs that the rebrand was a mistake.

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Re:Twitter's 'X' name change has led to a decrease in App St... by dangus on Sunday August 27, 2023 @11:07PM (#37289249)

Not really the same, Block is the holding company, Square is the product. Just look at squareup.com

Same situation as Alphabet and Google.

In contrast, X is changing all of its branding and slowly removing “Twitter” from everything, slowly but surely. Check out their recent blog posts: they don’t call anything Twitter.

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