{"id":17831,"date":"2023-07-24T14:49:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T14:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gustavopineda.com\/?p=17831"},"modified":"2023-07-24T14:49:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T14:49:31","slug":"twitter-x-reaction-jokes-elon-musk-rebrand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gustavopineda.com\/?p=17831","title":{"rendered":"Twitter ‘X’ renaming gathers the internet to warm itself around the garbage fire"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as “X” and the internet reacted with jokes and befuddlement. <\/p>\n

The long-promised change<\/a> went live to start this week<\/a> and it is…something else. Twitter or, erm….X, I guess…immediately began to do what it does. It made jokes reacting to the pointless change rebranding a super-well-known social media site that cost Musk $44 billion to purchase. <\/p>\n

Folks especially zeroed-in on the relatively bland logo. <\/p>\n

UK streamer itvX noticed it looked pretty familiar. <\/p>\n

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Others pointed out that the logo seemed like it was literally just an X in a certain font. In other words, the logo doesn’t look like it was designed at all. <\/p>\n

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It also seemed quite strange to people that the rebrand from Twitter to X was far from total. Users still, for instance, got presented with a “tweet” button and a search bar labeled “search Twitter.” <\/p>\n

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And despite being called X, the social media site still had all the issues that have plagued Musk’s version of Twitter: ads were down and things seemed to change with no plan.<\/p>\n

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And, the internet being the internet, there were lots of jokes about the sudden X rebrand.<\/p>\n

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The X app is here, Twitter is no more. Except Twitter kind of still exists. So for the time being folks on the X app will tweet about Twitter being gone. Makes perfect sense for Elon Musk’s version of Twitter…oops, I mean X. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk rebranded Twitter as “X” and the internet reacted with jokes and befuddlement. The long-promised change went live to start this week and it is…something else. Twitter or, erm….X,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-technology","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t