Looks like Twitter may soon be a thing of the past. Owner Elon Musk plans to change its name to “X” and to get rid of the bird logo. :o

https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-logo-x-bird-d58758cdd3f8441e7d2c8d3ac827ba90

I wonder what the appropriate words will be to describe activity there, since leaving a “Tweet” or “Tweeting” will be purged from the vocabulary? ???

Looks like Twitter may soon be a thing of the past. Owner Elon Musk plans to change its name to “X” and to get rid of the bird logo. :o

https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-logo-x-bird-d58758cdd3f8441e7d2c8d3ac827ba90

I wonder what the appropriate words will be to describe activity there, since leaving a “Tweet” or “Tweeting” will be purged from the vocabulary? ???


Maybe "X-ing?" Looks like IG's Threads will be the thing of the future to replace it.

Bye Bye Birdie?

The web link X.com now takes you to the Twitter site, displaying the new “X” logo.  But the blue bird logo still shows for now as well.

Looks like Twitter may soon be a thing of the past. Owner Elon Musk plans to change its name to “X” and to get rid of the bird logo. :o

https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-twitter-logo-x-bird-d58758cdd3f8441e7d2c8d3ac827ba90

I wonder what the appropriate words will be to describe activity there, since leaving a “Tweet” or “Tweeting” will be purged from the vocabulary? ???

I'm not on Twitter but I think he should've kept it the way it was and just left the word Twitter alone.  ::)

It was only a matter of time before Twitter went the way of the dodo. Everyone thinks that Musk is a brilliant guy because he built cars and built a rocket that looks like a giant phallic symbol (maybe he is trying to over-compensate for something). But it was obviously from the beginning that it was just a toy to him. He is like a little kid who was given a doll who cut the doll's hair, took off the limbs to perform "surgery" on it and did who knows what else to the doll. (Think Sid from Toy Story.) . In the end the doll does resemble anything of what it was and is ready for the trash heap.


Cat

It was only a matter of time before Twitter went the way of the dodo. Everyone thinks that Musk is a brilliant guy because he built cars and built a rocket that looks like a giant phallic symbol (maybe he is trying to over-compensate for something). But it was obviously from the beginning that it was just a toy to him. He is like a little kid who was given a doll who cut the doll's hair, took off the limbs to perform "surgery" on it and did who knows what else to the doll. (Think Sid from Toy Story.) . In the end the doll does resemble anything of what it was and is ready for the trash heap.


Cat


Irrespective of Musk, Twitter was consuming itself anyway and would have died with or without him. All of these things have a lifespan. I pity the fool who puts their creedence in these things. All of the people happily listening to Spotify will one day find that it is not there. Serious music listeners opt for physical. Even some young people intuitively understand that. The rug never gets pulled out from under you that way.

Irrespective of Musk, Twitter was consuming itself anyway and would have died with or without him. All of these things have a lifespan. I pity the fool who puts their creedence in these things. All of the people happily listening to Spotify will one day find that it is not there. Serious music listeners opt for physical. Even some young people intuitively understand that. The rug never gets pulled out from under you that way.


Does that include Facebook? Since 2020 Instagram has overtaken FB for the number of active users, at least among the younger age demographic. Granted, they are both owned by the same company/Zuckerberg.

Does that include Facebook? Since 2020 Instagram has overtaken FB for the number of active users, at least among the younger age demographic. Granted, they are both owned by the same company/Zuckerberg.


Of course it includes Facebook. I mentioned it in my previous post and then took it out for clarity. When Facebook started it was the hip thing for kids and cutting edge people who all deserted MySpace. Now Facebook is all old people and merchants. It's stodgy. How long can it last in it's current form?

ABC News reports:

Promising an AI-fueled expansion of the site's capabilities, X aims to follow the logo change with an ambitious foray into online banking and video messaging, among other areas, CEO Linda Yaccarino said on Sunday.

-https://abcnews.go.com/Business/rebranded-twitter/story?id=101605679

Of course it includes Facebook. I mentioned it in my previous post and then took it out for clarity. When Facebook started it was the hip thing for kids and cutting edge people who all deserted MySpace. Now Facebook is all old people and merchants. It's stodgy. How long can it last in it's current form?


But Inthe00s have been around much longer than Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. Granted, it doesn't have the same volume as those sites which in my opinion is a good thing. I say that as a long time member (20 years) and as a mod.


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Does that include Facebook? Since 2020 Instagram has overtaken FB for the number of active users, at least among the younger age demographic. Granted, they are both owned by the same company/Zuckerberg.

Facebook is now Meta, Twitter is now X, I wonder what Instagram might be called, guys have any ideas?

But Inthe00s have been around much longer than Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. Granted, it doesn't have the same volume as those sites which in my opinion is a good thing. I say that as a long time member (20 years) and as a mod.


Cat


I consider Inthe00s different from Twitter, Facebook and the rest. It's more underground. I'm on here but I would never be on those others.

Of course it includes Facebook. I mentioned it in my previous post and then took it out for clarity. When Facebook started it was the hip thing for kids and cutting edge people who all deserted MySpace. Now Facebook is all old people and merchants. It's stodgy. How long can it last in it's current form?


I remember a few short years it was discussed on here and some were saying that FB isn't going anywhere. It has become too powerful and had many purposes to keep users' accounts active, especially for the older generations.


Facebook is now Meta, Twitter is now X, I wonder what Instagram might be called, guys have any ideas?


IG is also part of Meta. If it were to be called anything else it should just been its nickname "The Gram". I've also heard it referred to as "Insta". Anyhow IG has outlasted Snapchat and Vine, and possibly even TikTok.

But Inthe00s have been around much longer than Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. Granted, it doesn't have the same volume as those sites which in my opinion is a good thing. I say that as a long time member (20 years) and as a mod.


Cat


Even Popedia has seen a huge decline in posts, at least at its decades boards, I am told. Somebody also told me that John Titor has even left Popedia.

InThe00s soldiers on!

It was only a matter of time before Twitter went the way of the dodo.

The only reason it stayed on its perch is because it was nailed there

..there must be an uncountable number of comedy writers parodying the Parrot Sketch over this change.

"This bird what I purchased a few months ago for $44 billion"
"What's wrong with it?"
"It's X, that's what's wrong with it"

The only reason it stayed on its perch is because it was nailed there

..there must be an uncountable number of comedy writers parodying the Parrot Sketch over this change.

"This bird what I purchased a few months ago for $44 billion"
"What's wrong with it?"
"It's X, that's what's wrong with it"


I had a bloody field day with it! :D

https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/UnNews:Twitter_bird_has_mortality_problem

The only reason it stayed on its perch is because it was nailed there

..there must be an uncountable number of comedy writers parodying the Parrot Sketch over this change.

"This bird what I purchased a few months ago for $44 billion"
"What's wrong with it?"
"It's X, that's what's wrong with it"


Lol!

Cat

https://hips.hearstapps.com/esquire/assets/16/05/1454779446-t.jpg

https://hips.hearstapps.com/esquire/assets/16/05/1454779446-t.jpg

Bye Bye Birdie?

Why just combine Twitter And X and just call it Twix? ;D

Why just combine Twitter And X and just call it Twix? ;D


Karma for making me laugh.


Cat

Why just combine Twitter And X and just call it Twix? ;D

Karma for making me laugh.


Cat
Over here, Trix is a chocolate bar.

Karma for making me laugh.


Cat

Cat, I thought it was a good laugh, all I did was take out the "tter" in Twitter and put the X in it's place and there you go.

Over here, Trix is a chocolate bar.


Over here Twix is a candy bar, Trix is a cereal.


Cat

Over here Twix is a candy bar, Trix is a cereal.


Cat
When I said chocolate bar, I meant a caramel shortbread chocolate bar.

When I said chocolate bar, I meant a caramel shortbread chocolate bar.


Yup. I'm sure it is the same but with a "w" not an "r."


Cat

Yup. I'm sure it is the same but with a "w" not an "r."


Cat

It is the same spelling on both sides of the pond, I was me misspelling it.

It is the same spelling on both sides of the pond, I was me misspelling it.


Gotcha.  Trix is a cereal with the tag line: Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids.  I would post a video but I am on my tablet and I haven't figured out how to do that yet. lol.


Cat

Gotcha.  Trix is a cereal with the tag line: Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids.  I would post a video but I am on my tablet and I haven't figured out how to do that yet. lol.


Cat


Twix are for kids… if one talks with a lithp.

Ok, on the computer. Here is the clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3ApTwWRQNw



Twix are for kids… if one talks with a lithp.



;D ;D ;D

What was his fascination with the letter X?

Eh, twitter was never good imo, so this isn't really a loss.

What was his fascination with the letter X?


There was an interesting article about the letter X in the Washington Post the other day:


Opinion
Why did Elon rebrand Twitter as ‘X’? The mystery.
By Johanna Drucker
July 27, 2023 at 8:47 a.m. EDT


Johanna Drucker is Breslauer professor and distinguished professor emerita in information studies at UCLA. She is the author of “Inventing the Alphabet: The Origins of Letters from Antiquity to the Present.”

“I like the letter X,” Elon Musk posted, shortly after he renamed and rebranded Twitter. “X will become the most valuable brand on Earth.” X? Can you imagine Musk picking J for the job? Or H? There would be puzzlement, as there is now, and not much else. But X also creates a certain frisson. Why?

The letter X carries so many connotations — many more than almost any other letter — though it was not among the original alphabetic signs in the Proto-Canaanite script that stabilized around 1700 B.C. Long before then, however, human sign systems consisted of very basic marks — stick figures for humans and animals, straight lines for tallies, circles, crosses and X signs. They show up on prehistoric masonry in Crete; they show up in prehistoric Byblos in Syria; they show up on stones marked between 20,000 and 10,000 years ago in the French area of Mas d’Azil.

X, in other words, was a sign before it was a letter — one that appears everywhere. Even a child, asked to invent a script, will include an X or other crosses.

The modern letter X derives from the Semitic sign “samekh” and was the 15th letter in the original alphabetic sequence. It consisted of a single vertical line with three horizontal bars, a fairly complicated sign compared with the circle, simple zigzags or letters of fewer strokes. The samekh represented the “s” sound, but when adopted by the Greeks, it was used to represent “xi.”

The Romans approached letterforms with the same formal precision they brought to engineering roads, arches and aqueducts. Roman letters have a geometric quality based on systems of carefully designed and executed proportion. And the Romans were the ones who created the more monumental, two-stroke X and moved it to the 24th place in the alphabet and let it designate a sound closer to “ks.”

Letter forms shift — just like costume — depending on whether they are made with pen, brush, chisel or other materials. But, remarkably, the sequence of letters, the sounds they represent and their names remain quite stable across millennia. Moving a letter to a different place in the alphabet was therefore dramatic and happened very little.

What about the symbolic values associated with the letter? It seems to suggest mystery — in the sense of “Who is Madame X?” X began its career as an algebraic sign for the unknown, the value that had to be calculated, in the 16th century, when Europeans adopted Persian mathematics. Descartes is responsible for putting the X and Y designations on axes to graph values. X also has the power of multiplication and is used in designating dimensions in measures of space — 10x10.

The mystery of X and its power also derive from the acts of deletion, crossing out and negation with which it is associated. The cancellation power of two bold strokes across a sheet of paper or an image is irrefutable. French writer Victor Hugo had his own idiosyncratic interpretations of letters and saw X as crossed swords in combat with an unknown outcome, not quite a negation but hardly positive. Who, or what, will be canceled in the struggle?

Keep in mind that X is the sign used by illiterates when asked to make “their” mark, when someone who cannot write alphabetically has to leave a sign of agreeing to a contract. X was adopted by Malcolm Little to represent his unknown African name and stand for his missing, lost, tribal affiliation. X marks loss, something absent, but also stands for kisses in the final line of a message.

In the Middle Ages, some official church documents were sealed with an X as a sign of faith. X is often used to designate the Christian symbol — and as an abbreviation — e.g., Xmas. There is a double resonance of the Chi-Rho symbol of Christ and the symbol made from the Greek letters including a cross.

In the world of commerce, because of X’s association with “Xtra,” it seems to suggest something Xceptional or Xtradordinary — a specialness that cannot quite be specified even though it adds value. In “X marks the spot,” it serves as a conspicuous sign. Something has been designated, noted, through a deliberate act that cannot be confused with natural tracks. Perhaps that designatory power — my sign, my mark — is the gesture of X most likely to appeal to the self-promotional Musk.


Cat

They just pushed thru the Twitter X application update to my iPad.

The familiar blue bird icon is now a black X. Could the name change really have been a tribute to Malcolm X? ???

They just pushed thru the Twitter X application update to my iPad.

The familiar blue bird icon is now a black X. Could the name change really have been a tribute to Malcolm X? ???

I don't think this has anything to do with Malcolm X.

What was his fascination with the letter X?
X, is the unknown!

X, is the unknown!

Also marks the spot on a treasure map.. a kiss, a vote, the horizontal axis...

If "it's going to become the most valuable brand on Earth", it's probably the treasure map he's thinking

Also marks the spot on a treasure map.. a kiss, a vote, the horizontal axis...

If "it's going to become the most valuable brand on Earth", it's probably the treasure map he's thinking
...and only 8 points in Scrabble.

X, is the unknown!

X is also the letter for porn.

What was his fascination with the letter X?
X rated film, for over 18s only.

X rated film, for over 18s only.


Or the XXX movies, must be 54 years old or older to watch!

Or the XXX movies, must be 54 years old or older to watch!

Where did you come up with that age?  ::)

Where did you come up with that age?  ::)


Well if you need to be 18 to view an X-rated movie, it only stands to reason that you need to be three times as old to view a XXX flick.  ;D

He should have changed it to a skull and cross bones with R.I.P. written!!

He destoryed it!!

He should have changed it to a skull and cross bones with R.I.P. written!!

He destroyed it!!

That's a good idea.

He should have changed it to a skull and cross bones with R.I.P. written!!

He destoryed it!!


Twitter always sucked. Quit fooling yourself.