Twitter Ditches the Bird; What's Next?
Jul. 25th, 2023 08:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
canyonwalkerIn the news this week, Elon Musk has announced that Twitter is rebranding. They're dropping their now-iconic blue bird logo. What's next? Well, even before Musk announced he would rebrand the company as X— yes, just, X, which is also a name he used for a company he sold years ago— I was thinking he should go with 💩. Yes, 💩.
Why 💩? For one, "💩" is how Musk instructed his PR team to start responding to media inquiries about the company after his hatchet-work firing huge swaths of the company, coupled with people choosing to leave his cracked, despotic rulership. Heck, maybe it was even Musk himself answering pr@twitter.com after so many abrupt departures.
More importantly, 💩 describes what Twitter has become— way better than any single letter does, even X. Twitter is now a shit-hole of haters, neo-Nazis, and disinformation propagandists. In fact along with taking the icon 💩 they should rebrand as Shitter. I can even offer them a logo:
Why 💩? For one, "💩" is how Musk instructed his PR team to start responding to media inquiries about the company after his hatchet-work firing huge swaths of the company, coupled with people choosing to leave his cracked, despotic rulership. Heck, maybe it was even Musk himself answering pr@twitter.com after so many abrupt departures.
More importantly, 💩 describes what Twitter has become— way better than any single letter does, even X. Twitter is now a shit-hole of haters, neo-Nazis, and disinformation propagandists. In fact along with taking the icon 💩 they should rebrand as Shitter. I can even offer them a logo:
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