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I slept in and just woke up, so here's what I've been able to figure out while sipping coffee:

Twitter has officially rebranded to X just a day or two after the move was announced.

The official branding is that a tweet is now called "an X", for which there are too many jokes to make.

The official account is still @twitter because someone else owns @X and they didn't reclaim the username first.

The logo is 𝕏 which is the Unicode character Unicode U+1D54F so the logo cannot be copyrighted and it is highly likely that it cannot be protected as a trademark.

Outside the visual logo, the trademark for the use of the name "X" in social media is held by Meta/Facebook, while the trademark for "X" in finance/commerce is owned by Microsoft.

The rebranding has been stopped in Japan as the term "X Japan" is trademarked by the band X JAPAN.

Elon had workers taking down the "Twitter" name from the side of the building. He did not have any permits to do this. The building owner called the cops who stopped the crew midway through so the sign just says "er".

He still plans to call his streaming and media hosting branch of the company as "Xvideo". Nobody tell him.

This man wants you to give him control over all of your financial information.

Edit to add further developments:

Yes, this is all real. Check the notes and people have pictures. I understand the skepticism because it feels like a joke, but to the best of my knowledge, everything in the above is accurate.

Microsoft also owns the trademark on X for chatting and gaming because, y'know, X-box.

The logo came from a random podcaster who tweeted it at Musk.

The act of sending a tweet is now known as "Xeet". They even added a guide for how to Xeet.

The branding change is inconsistent. Some icons have changed, some have not, and the words "tweet" and "Twitter" are still all over the place on the site.

TweetDeck is currently unaffected and I hope it's because they forgot that it exists again. The complete negligence toward that tool and just leaving it the hell alone is the only thing that makes the site usable (and some of us are stuck on there for work).

This is likely because Musk was forced out of PayPal due to a failed credit line project and because he wanted to rename the site to "X-Paypal" and eventually just to "X".

This became a big deal behind the scenes as Musk paid over $1 million for the domain X.com and wanted to rebrand the company that already had the brand awareness people were using it as a verb to "pay online" (as in "I'll paypal you the money")

X.com is not currently owned by Musk. It is held by a domain registrar (I believe GoDaddy but I'm not entirely sure). Meaning as long as he's hung onto this idea of making X Corp a thing, he couldn't be arsed to pay the $15/year domain renewal.

Bloomberg estimates the rebranding wiped between $4 to $20 billion from the valuation of Twitter due to the loss of brand awareness.

The company was already worth less than half of the $44 billion Musk paid for it in the first place, meaning this may end up a worse deal than when Yahoo bought Tumblr.

One estimation (though this is with a grain of salt) said that Twitter is three months from defaulting on its loans taken out to buy the site. Those loans were secured with Tesla stock. Meaning the bank will seize that stock and, since it won't be enough to pay the debt (since it's worth around 50-75% of what it was at the time of the loan), they can start seizing personal assets of Elon Musk including the Twitter company itself and his interest in SpaceX.

Sesame Street's official accounts mocked the rebranding.

Me: *shows basic human decency to cashier

Cashier: ??!?! Thank you! You’re the nicest person ever!

Me: are you ok

how i sleep knowing i will never make a 10k+ notes post

Video Games Fictional Characters

A skeleton, a blue hedgehog, and an animatronic bear walk into a bar…

Spamton | Deltarune +3

Sonic the Hedgehog | the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise +8

Glamrock Freddy | Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach

Sans | Undertale +5

Ingo | the Pokémon franchise

Kirby | the Kirby franchise +10

Mario | the Super Mario Bros. franchise -1

Kris Dreemurr | Deltarune +11

Sundrop | Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach

Moondrop | Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach

Shadow the Hedgehog | the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise +17

Phoenix Wright | Ace Attorney +1

Link | The Legend of Zelda franchise -10

Gregory | Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach

Miles Edgeworth | Ace Attorney +3

Ralsei | Deltarune -4

Susie | Deltarune -3

Noelle Holiday | Deltarune +8

Mammon | Obey Me! – Shall we date? -11

Lucifer | Obey Me! – Shall we date? -13

Main Character | Obey Me! – Shall we date? +3

Knuckles the Echidna | the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise

Montgomery Gator | Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach

Papyrus | Undertale -2

Glamrock Chica | Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach

Roxanne Wolf | Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach

Jevil | Deltarune

Berdly | Deltarune

Subway Boss Emmet | the Pokémon franchise

Ekko | League of Legends

Kim Kitsuragi | Disco Elysium

Bowser | the Super Mario Bros. franchise

Azul Ashengrotto | Twisted Wonderland

Diavolo | Obey Me! – Shall we date? -1

Leona Kingscholar | Twisted Wonderland

Frisk | Undertale -1

Malleus Draconia | Twisted Wonderland +11

Glamrock Bonnie | Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security Breach

Barbatos | Obey Me! – Shall we date? +4

Arthur Morgan | Red Dead Redemption 2 -8

Mettaton | Undertale

Floyd Leech | Twisted Wonderland

Maya Fey | Ace Attorney

Simeon | Obey Me! – Shall we date? +1

Michael Afton | the Five Nights at Freddy’s franchise

Riddle Rosehearts | Twisted Wonderland

Harry Du Bois | Disco Elysium

Sora | the Kingdom Hearts franchise -14

Solomon | Obey Me! – Shall we date? -8

Idia Shroud | Twisted Wonderland

The number in italics indicates how many spots a name moved up or down from the previous year. Bolded names weren’t on the list last year.

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Re-open Appeal (UK) of Johnny Depp defamation case, following unanimous US Jury Verdict - Sign the Petition!

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I tumblr! My name is Elaine. You can see me in this picture! That is me holding the sign, HI! Well my hubby said that if this gets 1 MILLION notes, he will buy me a horse. I would love a horse I grew up on a farm where I rode and ate horses til i was 15 when I moved. I have not seen a horse since, not even a picture! Only one painting I painted in 7th grade. My husband obviously thinks this is going to be an impossible task thats why I am taking this on the interwebs where i can get likes. I have 5,000 on facebook so I am almost there. I want brown horse with some white. I will braid the hair. Thanks so much everyone! Please help me achieve this! :) God Bless

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My name is Bri, and this is a fundraiser to help my mom. Recently she was diagnosed … Brionna Sapp needs your support for Teresa Sapp's Cancer Treatment Fund

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