Well well well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions.

  • tal
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    01 year ago

    Bring back Twitter

    I’ve never had an account on the service before or after the rebrand, and for the three or so people who I occasionally glance at the accounts of, I normally use nitter.net.

    However…was there actually any significant functional difference associated with “X” rebrand?

    The most-significant technical shift that I was aware of was many years back, when they increased the tweet character limit.

    • pjhenry1216
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      01 year ago

      No, it’s just a very poorly thought out rebrand. Articles keep saying “X, formerly Twitter” because without it, articles actually sound pretty bad and look silly. It’s a bad name for an Internet service. It’s generic. It doesn’t do well in web searches. It doesn’t sound good when talking out loud. It’s all around a poor idea according to any marketing theory. People are used to saying tweets. It already essentially had total mind share. It was the standard for microblogging. It reached “Kleenex” or “band-aid” status in being the default reference for the concept.

      And he just ditched it because he likes the letter X.