Twitter to ditch bird logo, Musk says

Musk think the problem is the logo. Only if he knew, the logo is fine it is him that people dont like.

The logo has been very successful in branding the company, as well as the companion verb "tweet". I think a company has reached peak when its name or something connected is used as an action verb. If he had taken over McDs he'd be tossing out the arches and even Big Mac with claims that they are the problem.
Twitter may have not been in great shape financially when he took over, but at least it had somewhat of an image. Musk is the contractor you called to fix a leak in the roof, and he burns the house down. He fixed the leak alright.
- Twitter was doing fine financially before Musk bought it. He paid more than twice what it was worth and he used loans to do it, that's what this is all about.
- Yes, the name of the company, the logo, and the idea of “tweets” are all a charming evocation of a world filled with brief messages. Twitter has problems, but branding isn’t one of them.
- What's the new word for microblogging on X corp? "Musk x-ed this morning that ..."
- Honestly, I would drop the McDonald’s clown. He is weird and some children and even adults are uneasy or outright scared of him.
- Imagine if he thought that "X-ing" was a viable alternative to "tweeting". Heck even "tooting" and "firefishing" would fit better
If he wants to get rid of the bird why is he changing the name to Eggs?
logo 8s fucking perfect. never have i ever doubted that logo or wished it change. it's Twitter's while identity. that guy 8s bonkers

He wants to replace it with an X, an x with bent arms in a nice red and white background people will love that it'll just pop.

Many social apps use blue. Having your suggested colour applied would make sure Twitter is supremely above the others.
- He needs to buy Uber next....

What is with this guy and his hardon for adding “X” to everything? He’s like a teenager that thinks that adding flame decals to anything makes them “cooler”.

It's halfway to a swastika.
He’s obsessed with it. His version of PayPal before he merged with the company that became PayPal was x.com and everyone hated it.
The x stands for xtremely shitty.
Teslax - Ask your pharmacist today what Teslax can do for you.
- Teslax gives you erectile dysfunction.
Literally stuck in the 90s.

I’m so glad we got this instead of solving global warming

Well Elon can hardly masturbate to being on global warming all day, can he?! /s

Getting rid of the last remaining identifiable part of the company. Genius move.

Actually if he uses a color besides blue/purple it'll make Twitter stand out from the crowd.
I mean... it's not going to go well with Elon at the helm, but it's too early to hate on a rebrand just yet.
- it’s too early to hate on a rebrand just yet
  There was no reason to rebrand when he bought Twitter. Why the hell would someone rebrand an internationally recognized logo? Especially one that was pretty well regarded just a year ago (at least for a social media site).

Elon is a genius! He removed the bird, symbolizing the loss of freedom for its user and his company's inability to soar to great heights.

The bird leaving indicates an impeding catastrophe about to hit his company and the new symbol "X" is just as clever, because that's the sign people will click on when they go uninstall the app. Soon, the relationship between Twitter and its users will be nonexistent, just like Musk and his "X" wives

X is closer to a swastika than a bird so it fits
The next update to the logo will be adding 4 more lines...
- X is also the name of Twitter's parent company, x.
Something about canaries in coal mines.
- Canary is dead

It is entirely possible that he just wrecks companies for fun.

This is just what billionaires do nowadays.
Or on purpose, in this case.
Rebranding at this level sounds very much like purposeful destruction of an existing resource and company, rather than an attempt to make the company any better, successful, or more profitable.
I'm starting to wonder if the Saudis have told him they'll reimburse any of his personal losses from his stock buy, in return for sinking and destroying the company.
It just seems like the Musk buy, once it happened, has been too effective a means of destroying a platform that was previously used extensively by protestors and activists to organise mass group activity against governments and authorities.
It would certainly be my answer now to those regular Reddit questions like "what's the one conspiracy theory you actually believe is true?"
What other companies has he wrecked?

I've been using a moniker containing two Xs for over two decades. Speaking on behalf of my early-20s self, how fucking edgy do you believe yourself to be as one of the world's richest persons embracing a single letter as the epitome of logos to represent your umbrella corporation? Hire a branding team, you pathetically dull gen-x neckbeard edgelord manchild.

Seriously, the '90s called a they want their X back.

Elon is the kind of guy who picked a goofy xbox gamertag when he was a kid and never stopped using it. I wouldn't know.
- Me, either.
  Well, KaliDOS instead of Xbox, but still...
He doesn't need a branding team, he's too smart for that. That's why he is also sourcing a logo from the Twitter community. Because ~~billionaires~~ geniuses don't pay for anything.
Just wait until he comes after you for infringing on his trademark 😬
The alphabet will never be the same again. Sesame Street better lawyer up.

Pay $44 billion for a well known and popular company, ditch the name and the logo for something totally new and unknown.

So smart.

It’s beyond our thinking. Minimum above 300 IQ needed to understand this.

Another unnecessary bandaid to Elon's massive problems. I'd say he should quit while he's behind, but I love watching him fail.

That man's got no god damn sense.

I choose to believe he's just doing this for memes at this point. I can't accept humans are capable of these depths through inadvertent action, it's just too dumb.

He is completely insane

I think we are in the midst of a worldwide epidemic of mental illness, and even the wealthiest and most powerful are not immune.
I’m here for it…

Do we need to stop calling them tweets then?

The new word will be 'twats', after it's owner
- Years ago I used the word "twat" around my girlfriend and she said "you're pronouncing that wrong". WTF? I thought she was going to tell me to pronounce it like the English do ("twatt" instead of "twott") but she said it was actually pronounced "twah" - without the t on the end. Turns out she thought people were trying to use the French word toit. No idea why she thought people were going around calling each other roofs.
Call it a twix?
- Xeet - one better than yeet.

Wrong community tbh, this is solid nottheonion material. I don't understand this world any more to be honest. 😅

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A ditch would make a much better logo, indeed.

watching the flames reach new heights on this continually evolving dumpster fire keeps me warm at night

LOOOOOOL. Did he just snag the dated and always terrible logo from Xorg and think it was cool and modern?

He's had a thing for the letter X since at least the 90s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com
And of course his space company is SpaceX.
- And that one spawn he named X something something

Might be better for technology. But I see it's already posted there 🤷

He is really good at bringing twitter down.

How do I ‘get lucky’ too with becoming a billionaire like Elon randomly did??????????????????????????????????????????????

Do you have a rich daddy?
- And are you willing to pay workers shit, force them to work in life threatening conditions, and pay off governments and gangsters to prevent them from organising?
- no
Thing is, he didn't just randomly get lucky. He put in a huge amount of work and actually had a lot of good ideas. People love to hate Elon Musk, and when you hate someone you're loathe to admit to any positives about him, but he actually is smart in certain fields. It's not sheer coincidence that most of the companies he bought or started before this Twitter debacle grew immensely and made great advances. You can say that's because he "hired the right people," but that itself is a skill - knowing who to hire and what resources and projects to give them.
Unfortunately, I think Musk has been so successful for so long that he's become convinced he's good at everything. And as we're seeing now, he seems to have found something he's really not good at. He's new at running a social media company and this is the first time he's bought a really big pre-established company with a different culture than he's used to and there's clearly some trouble there. But I guess time will tell just what happens to Twitter in the long run.
- I respect your opinion, but I just don’t think he’s that smart..
- I'm fairly certain anyone with enough startup capital, heck even just a safety net, can make it big. The issue is most people don't have either.

So, umm, ex-birdsite

This.. Is an ex.... Parrot.

Great, so they're going to replace it with a logo with no personality and which is less marketable.

They already did lol
- I saw the follow up post.. Yeah.. Makes no sense, given the existing terminology. Also noticed I can't see anything without logging in. I'm sure that will help getting sponsors

Duck Dodgers should sue.

So.

Farging.

Newsworthy.

This will make the last people go away that had stayed. Total waste of money now.