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    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.

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

    Twitter -> Xitter [shitter]

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        That and if he wanted to burn it down, he wouldn’t of thrown the fit about threads. Unexpected events doesn’t make something a conspiracy.

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      He’s talking about only changing the logo and people are all talking about it. It’s free marketing like he does with Tesla.

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          The any publicity is good publicity mindset really is gone after you are already a household name. Twitter was already in the news daily, Journalism was replaced with 300 “Celebrity/politician tweeted ______”, and half the time all research and studies being replaced with 10 random tweets. “People are outraged about X, here’s 10 tweets from random people to prove it”.

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          A good engagement metric is a good thing to show to big advertisers no? At the end of the day these companies couldn’t care less with woke/pc culture, they just want to sell.

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            Yeah, but if people don’t talk about it on twitter… or X, I suppose… then he has nothing to show for it to their advertisers. “Hey look, we were on TV, and newspapers write articles about us” is not really an argument for twitter anymore, they have been a household name for so long.

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    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.

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      Trademark not copyright. Copyright only applies to entire works like a song text or the code Twitter has produced. For example the song title alone is not copyrighted. A trademark realistically only expires when it gets contested in court.

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        There’s a similar law where you must at least defend a trademark against misuse to keep hold of it. That was the reasoning behind this music video for Velcro:

        https://youtu.be/rRi8LptvFZY

        So, based on that, maybe they won’t lose it just by not using it. But if someone else tried to establish a Twitter product, they may lose the trademark if they don’t fight it.

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    𝕎𝕆𝕎, 𝕊𝕌𝕔𝕙 𝔸𝕟 𝔼𝕏𝕔𝕀𝕋𝕀𝕟𝔾 𝔸𝕟𝔻 𝕔𝕣𝔼𝔸𝕋𝕀𝕍𝔼 𝕀𝕔𝕆𝕟

    𝕏

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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.

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      I think he is referring to the X-Men and Wolverine don’t deserve to be the name sponsor for Elon’s perverted platform.

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        Come to think of it, will employees be called x-men? Like the Zuck started refering to his employees as meta mates or whatever it was.

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

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    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

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    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”?