This is an interesting sabotage to any figures that want to maintain their presence.

If you search for "brandname twitter", you're probably going to get what you want. "brandname x" will be a SEO catastrophe.

Maybe they hoped to drive people to navigate through their own site and search facilities, but generally, not being where people are looking is a terrible strategy even on a chain of bad strategies.

Just pronounce it like we would pronounce a Chinese name, where the X are pronounced sh

Twitter -> Xitter [shitter]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System see logo and name in case not familiar with the context

If X is no longer twitter, how long till the copyright on the twitter brand expires?

You can't argue anyone would confuse a website called twitter with 'X'.

Maybe Zuckerberg could rebrand threads Twitter.

𝕎𝕆𝕎, 𝕊𝕌𝕔𝕙 𝔸𝕟 𝔼𝕏𝕔𝕀𝕋𝕀𝕟𝔾 𝔸𝕟𝔻 𝕔𝕣𝔼𝔸𝕋𝕀𝕍𝔼 𝕀𝕔𝕆𝕟

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Just from an economic standpoint, it's such a terrible decision. The Twitter bird is iconic to the point where the trademark itself is worth a considerable amount. This is like Disney dumping Mickey Mouse for a side character in The Dark Cauldron.

RIP people searching google for help with "X" on Windows.

A guy made wayland social to prove superiority lmao

Can’t wait for the first X on X by X Æ A-12 about the SpaceX launch

• Bland corporations and mediocre CEO when they need to name something * Slaps an X on it *

Oh no, i love the x-com games. They don't deserve to be the name sponsor for Elons weird platform.

Classic Elon, will tweeting be called sexting and is this the main reason for the name change?

Musk's gon' bill it to ya

Tired of tweeting for free? X's gonna monetize ya

Tap tap, open up the app, it's ~~free~~...

With the non-stop, cash grab of premium fees

Riding rockets, now he's starbound and sold

But he got such a grand scheme

That'll make a tweeter wonder if he’s been memed

Damn right, and he'll charge you again, 'cause he's Elon, so hes gots to win

Tweet battles with the freemium, but no matter how many cats he boxes with, he'll profit on your scene and win

Sometimes I wonder if the Claudian letters stuck and, just like we got X for /ks/ (or /gz/... or /ʃ/... or whatever, this letter is a mess), we also got a Ↄ for /ps/. Maybe modern people would be also spamming Ↄ for this sort of "rule of cool"?

I honestly wonder if this is going to end up forcing the X graphics system to rename itself based on trademark law.

"χ"... A most ancient letter. Some say "kye," but the meaning is the same. Death... A letter that spells endings

I'm thinking Elon doing this crazy rename is a throwback

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com

Elon is breaking up with his X and starting anew

This is such a bad move just from an SEO perspectiv