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minus-square@supercriticalcheese@feddit.itlinkfedilinkEnglish18•2 years agoWhat I don’t understand is the Twitter rebrand will it be limited to the logo or also the name? Or will it be limited to X corp. as the parent company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Corp.
minus-squareexscapelinkfedilink8•2 years agoThe name, and domain. It will be x.com with the X logo, and no birds anywhere.
minus-square@tankfox@latte.isnot.coffeelinkfedilink8•2 years agoHow will anyone ever search for anything on X? Just add X to the search term? ‘Grandmas cookies X’? ‘Cute bunny X’? ‘Pen Island X’?
minus-squareivanafteralllinkfedilink6•2 years agoDue to a weird Google quirk, you’ll get better results if you surround the query with two additional X’s, kind of like quotation marks. For example: Grandmas cookies XXX Cute bunny xxx Pen Island xxx
minus-square@Master@beehaw.orglinkfedilink3•2 years agoIn this case you would search “cute bunny x.com”
minus-squarePigeonlinkfedilink1•edit-22 years ago… Gosh, that has much potential to make everything sound dirty or sleezy, too. 🤦 xxx X.x
What I don’t understand is the Twitter rebrand will it be limited to the logo or also the name?
Or will it be limited to X corp. as the parent company https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Corp.
Here’s it is, straight from the horse’s rear:
The name, and domain. It will be x.com with the X logo, and no birds anywhere.
How will anyone ever search for anything on X? Just add X to the search term? ‘Grandmas cookies X’? ‘Cute bunny X’? ‘Pen Island X’?
Due to a weird Google quirk, you’ll get better results if you surround the query with two additional X’s, kind of like quotation marks. For example:
Grandmas cookies XXX
Cute bunny xxx
Pen Island xxx
In this case you would search “cute bunny x.com”
… Gosh, that has much potential to make everything sound dirty or sleezy, too. 🤦 xxx
X.x