You’re interpreting a much older shorthand with online emoticon rules. XO is a closed-eye open-mouth emoticon, but XOXO has been “hugs and kisses” for long enough to have been used when people wrote letters by hand.
Looks absolutely well-planned and not rushed at all, perfect alignment of the logo, proper copy. Definitely not just a hasty implementation of a fever dream.
I’m guessing that skill with Cascading Style Sheets is considered wasted time and effort at X, much like media relations, accessibility, and microservices.
I enjoy reading about this change because everytime someone writes something like. Look what x did. My first thought isn’t of Twitter or any social media, it’s: “who’s x?” (As in replacement variable)
So stupid to rebrand like that. Oh well, never used Twitter anyways
I’m amazed at how many people think Twitter has copied the X Windows logo
when you’re trying to make a point it’s always worth being right and not wrong
Tom Warren is amazed that many people notice a new logo having almost exactly the same shape as a well-known, decades-old one. Tom Warren would like everyone to know that he is much more clever than they are, for noticing that it also resembles an obscure font’s glyph for an obscure unicode character that has existed for roughly half as long. Good for you, Tom Warren. We all admire you and the glorious blue-framed check mark next to your name.
Yes, yes… it’s fine to acknowledge the existence of math notation that most people will never use.
Tom Warren chose to fixate on a specific typeface (not math) and use that as an excuse to criticize people for their valid comparison to something that predates it. He followed up by declaring that he was “right” and others were “wrong”. Is he a four-year-old?
I can’t think of a more snide, self-aggrandizing way to participate in the conversation. It was unnecessary, rude, and not even technically correct*, which is why he has earned my mocking comment in response.
*(We can see in the replies that the glyph he shows to support his position is in fact not the same as the logo being discussed.)
Wonder if Businesses will replace the twitter logo in their windows as well.
I doubt they will for a while at least. This change was so sudden that a lot of people will just not know what X is. It doesn’t look like a social media icon and a lot of people will just not be familiar with it.
It’s also horribly forgettable, even if I did use X regularly, I might just forget what the icon looked like out of context.
They did a great job replacing a highly marketable icon with character, with something that feels like cliche 80’s dial-up geocities days that doesn’t make sense at all, given the terminology of everything…
In other news, you need to log in to use twitter now? lol. Wow, genius
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In my case this translates to “Twitter is now deleted”.
I deleted Twitter years ago.
Der erste Schritt zu West-WeeChat.
haben die auch ein hässliches logo?
I wonder how many (e)X-twitter users there will be after this change.
Even Mastodon’s old lingo "toot"ing sounds more trendy than "x"ing a comment.
If you remember back to your birthday cards as a kid when your loved ones put XOXO in the card… X is kisses.
So Xing is pronounced Kissing!
Don’t tweet it, just exit.
The X isn’t kisses. The X stand for closes eyes and the O is an open mouth, hence XO = kiss emote and XOXO is the plural
Doesn’t “XOXO” mean “hugs and kisses”? The X represents a kiss and the O represents a hug.
That was always my understanding of it.
Yeah, you are right. Guess we used it wrong in school.
You’re interpreting a much older shorthand with online emoticon rules. XO is a closed-eye open-mouth emoticon, but XOXO has been “hugs and kisses” for long enough to have been used when people wrote letters by hand.
That never made sense to me. X is the shape of two people hugging and O is the shape of pursed lips.
Yeah I don’t get it either, but it’s been that way for so long that we as a society probably stopped questioning it.
Yeah that’s what I grew up learning and my mom taught me that x is kisses o is hugs. Til that it’s seen and way!
Wait…it’s not tooting anymore?
I mean I do that daily. Only not on the internets
Excreting.
👀
No it isn’t.
No… No it’s not… But you can imagine what’d be like if it was, right?
Except that Meta (Facebook) has already trademarked X as pertains to social media.
He believes they’re above regulation, if anyone tries to CTL X it just gets cut from the web.
It looks
so dark and edgytacky.Looks absolutely well-planned and not rushed at all, perfect alignment of the logo, proper copy. Definitely not just a hasty implementation of a fever dream.
I thought this was a joke.
It’s not even centered?
I’m guessing that skill with Cascading Style Sheets is considered wasted time and effort at X, much like media relations, accessibility, and microservices.
I enjoy reading about this change because everytime someone writes something like. Look what x did. My first thought isn’t of Twitter or any social media, it’s: “who’s x?” (As in replacement variable)
So stupid to rebrand like that. Oh well, never used Twitter anyways
It’s right of the center. So aligned with Elon’s politics…
Ha! Good one
Somehow, this is the bit that offends me most
Uh, Elon, did you just copy the X Window System logo?
No. It’s from Special Alphabets 4. https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1683428660915625989?t=61yiSztLYwYk44zLQ1HVrw&s=19
Tom Warren is amazed that many people notice a new logo having almost exactly the same shape as a well-known, decades-old one. Tom Warren would like everyone to know that he is much more clever than they are, for noticing that it also resembles an obscure font’s glyph for an obscure unicode character that has existed for roughly half as long. Good for you, Tom Warren. We all admire you and the glorious blue-framed check mark next to your name.
Standard monotype font
𝕏 - “mathematical double-struck capital X”
Added to Unicode in 2001, used a very similar character for X11 in 1984, added to math in… who was the first mathematician in history to ever use it?
Blackboard Bold - popularized in the 1960s.
Yes, yes… it’s fine to acknowledge the existence of math notation that most people will never use.
Tom Warren chose to fixate on a specific typeface (not math) and use that as an excuse to criticize people for their valid comparison to something that predates it. He followed up by declaring that he was “right” and others were “wrong”. Is he a four-year-old?
I can’t think of a more snide, self-aggrandizing way to participate in the conversation. It was unnecessary, rude, and not even technically correct*, which is why he has earned my mocking comment in response.
*(We can see in the replies that the glyph he shows to support his position is in fact not the same as the logo being discussed.)
OK, so maybe Tom Warren is not the most likable guy, or not one to defuse a controversy that can lead more people to his website.
But I think it is technically correct:
I think the part we should take from this, is “Elon just wrote an x in a ‘1337 way’, and called it a logo”.
What a special time to be alive.
Shouldn’t that link… go to x.com now? 🤣
https://x.com/tomwarren/status/1683428660915625989?t=61yiSztLYwYk44zLQ1HVrw&s=19
Bonus one: https://𝕩.com/tomwarren/status/1683428660915625989?t=61yiSztLYwYk44zLQ1HVrw&s=19
He googled “X logo” and picked the first option he didn’t recognize
No, they copied Elon. Law suit coming soon. /s
You might not need the s…
This shit makes Elon look even more like a Bond villain than he already is.
That’s giving him way too much credit. More like an Austin Powers villain, and even that is questionable.
Off brand Scooby-Doo villain.
I wonder who’s under the mask…
*Under the Musk
AKA Twitter is now Fucked?
Was there a time it wasn’t?
There was a time they let people send Tweets through SMS. It almost made sense back then.
KILL IT
KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!
RIP AND TEAR
What’s next, Elon? Try to trademark the letter x?
Elon on his way to sue X-ray manufacturers.
Space X will rebrand to S
Tesla To E
Just so he gets his S E X “joke” on the second try.
AI he wanted to become the CEO of SEX al along. . .
Why didn’t he just buy CEX?
Rebrand to XXX
Elon can ask his ex-president mate to hook him up with some porn stars for twitter
Microsoft might have an issue with that.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology may also take issue.
yeah, well, even the @twitter account now has the X logo.
x.com redirects to twitter.com as well.
Wonder if Businesses will replace the twitter logo in their windows as well.
At this time, many businesses are indeed probably replacing their twitter logo, with either Mastodon, threads, or nothing as a replacement
I doubt they will for a while at least. This change was so sudden that a lot of people will just not know what X is. It doesn’t look like a social media icon and a lot of people will just not be familiar with it.
It’s also horribly forgettable, even if I did use X regularly, I might just forget what the icon looked like out of context.
They did a great job replacing a highly marketable icon with character, with something that feels like cliche 80’s dial-up geocities days that doesn’t make sense at all, given the terminology of everything…
In other news, you need to log in to use twitter now? lol. Wow, genius
Kinda like the names of his kids.