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"Twitter Blue" is already a stupid name, after "YouTube Red" (which is stupid for the same reasons. At least YouTube tried it first, I guess) but it gets worse

"Twitter Blue" is already a stupid name, after "YouTube Red" (which is stupid for the same reasons. At least YouTube tried it first, I guess) but it gets worse when the only feature I can see in that post is that you can select colours, other than the Twitter blue, making effectively not blue. At least YouTube Red keeps the colour (I guess, I have no idea)

insonifi 5y ago
BBC was on it way before any of them even existed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Red_Button https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Red_Button
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chomp 5y ago
Sounds like the product team had difficulty coming up with a name. You probably don't want to name it Twitter Premium if there's nothing exactly premium there except for an undo button and color choices, and Premium or Enhanced imply that their base product isn't sufficient. If you remove Twitter <adjective> from the consideration, really all you can do is come up with a name that's somewhat disjointed but related to the product.
- d3nj4l 5y ago
  Whatever happened to good ol' "Plus"? Although, god forbid they come up with a "Twitter Pro"...
  - wcarss 5y ago
    I also immediately thought of 'plus' -- I wonder if there would be a trademark issue because of "Google Plus"?
    - adenozine 5y ago
      What? Do you think they own the idea of addition?
      - TchoBeer 5y ago
        Publishing in mathematics has been a nightmare ever since Google merged with the abstract concept of addition
      - wcarss 5y ago
        I was thinking of Twitter as a social/comment/news webapp company using the word "plus" to market a new product in a space where a cash-rich competitor with a decade-old product with broadly similar functionality already uses the word "plus" as the entire name of their own entry in the category. An analog might be game publisher King (maker of Candy Crush Saga) initiating legal proceedings against makers of other games that used the word "Saga" or "Candy", e.g. "Banner Saga"[1], even though those are obviously not reasonable claims -- and I think they lost? Regardless, they're still able to try, and it exerted pressure. So, imagine you're sitting in a board room at Twitter, naming your new social web app product, and someone says, "How about 'Twitter+'?", and you know there's Disney+, and Apple TV+, and Google+ all already out there, and you say, "nah... that sounds like a headache we can do without." But maybe not, hence why I noted I was merely wondering. 1 - https://metro.co.uk/2014/01/22/candy-crush-makers-sue-the-banner-saga-trademark-the-word-candy-4272683/ https://metro.co.uk/2014/01/22/candy-crush-makers-sue-the-ba...
  - toyg 5y ago
    They should have chosen something like "Twitter Baller" - appealing to their core demographic while not diminishing the standard tier.
    - PoignardAzur 5y ago
      "Twittest"
      - monkeybutton 5y ago
        Twitter Most™
    - TchoBeer 5y ago
      I'm getting the weirdest powerful deja Vu from this post.
  - drdec 5y ago
    They are saving Twitter+ for the name of the inevitable streaming service
    - Andrex 5y ago
      Twitter still has the worst embedded video player of any "big tech" co, god help us...
eggoa 5y ago
Maybe they're all just Johnnie Walker fans.
rustybelt 5y ago
YouTube Red was terrible because it was so similar to RedTube (which friends tell me is a porn site.)
- akomtu 5y ago
  Not even a good one (an opinion of a consultant I hired to evaluate the site).
  - TchoBeer 5y ago
    What need did you have to hire a consultant to evaluate a porn site
    - akomtu 5y ago
      Academic research.
tablespoon 5y ago
Such naming is part of my break-up plan for the tech giants. If you break Facebook up into three successor companies with competing networks, you run into the problem of what do with the Facebook brand. It would be unfair and counterproductive to give one the brand and have the other two create new ones, so my idea is to give them color versions (e.g. Facebook Red, Facebook Green, Facebook Purple). Eventually they'd probably rebrand, but it's the best solution I can think of to start.
- pedrogpimenta 5y ago
  I know, I understand it, I thought that too. It's just my opinion, I still think it's a silly name.
everdrive 5y ago
Youtube Red sounded extra stupid, since it sounds very close to RedTube, which is a pornographic video site.
thejosh 5y ago
I'm happy to pay for YT Red for no ads, background play etc on my mobile devices. I use the platform quite a bit and it's fine for that. If you're really cheap you can signup through their indian link for a couple of dollars a month.
cblconfederate 5y ago
They should charge extra for color shades other than blue
Andrex 5y ago
YouTube Premium is definitely a much better name for the service.

insonifi 5y ago

BBC was on it way before any of them even existed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Red_Button https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Red_Button

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chomp 5y ago

Sounds like the product team had difficulty coming up with a name. You probably don't want to name it Twitter Premium if there's nothing exactly premium there except for an undo button and color choices, and Premium or Enhanced imply that their base product isn't sufficient. If you remove Twitter <adjective> from the consideration, really all you can do is come up with a name that's somewhat disjointed but related to the product.

d3nj4l 5y ago
Whatever happened to good ol' "Plus"? Although, god forbid they come up with a "Twitter Pro"...
- wcarss 5y ago
  I also immediately thought of 'plus' -- I wonder if there would be a trademark issue because of "Google Plus"?
  - adenozine 5y ago
    What? Do you think they own the idea of addition?
    - TchoBeer 5y ago
      Publishing in mathematics has been a nightmare ever since Google merged with the abstract concept of addition
    - wcarss 5y ago
      I was thinking of Twitter as a social/comment/news webapp company using the word "plus" to market a new product in a space where a cash-rich competitor with a decade-old product with broadly similar functionality already uses the word "plus" as the entire name of their own entry in the category. An analog might be game publisher King (maker of Candy Crush Saga) initiating legal proceedings against makers of other games that used the word "Saga" or "Candy", e.g. "Banner Saga"[1], even though those are obviously not reasonable claims -- and I think they lost? Regardless, they're still able to try, and it exerted pressure. So, imagine you're sitting in a board room at Twitter, naming your new social web app product, and someone says, "How about 'Twitter+'?", and you know there's Disney+, and Apple TV+, and Google+ all already out there, and you say, "nah... that sounds like a headache we can do without." But maybe not, hence why I noted I was merely wondering. 1 - https://metro.co.uk/2014/01/22/candy-crush-makers-sue-the-banner-saga-trademark-the-word-candy-4272683/ https://metro.co.uk/2014/01/22/candy-crush-makers-sue-the-ba...
- toyg 5y ago
  They should have chosen something like "Twitter Baller" - appealing to their core demographic while not diminishing the standard tier.
  - PoignardAzur 5y ago
    "Twittest"
    - monkeybutton 5y ago
      Twitter Most™
  - TchoBeer 5y ago
    I'm getting the weirdest powerful deja Vu from this post.
- drdec 5y ago
  They are saving Twitter+ for the name of the inevitable streaming service
  - Andrex 5y ago
    Twitter still has the worst embedded video player of any "big tech" co, god help us...

eggoa 5y ago

Maybe they're all just Johnnie Walker fans.

rustybelt 5y ago

YouTube Red was terrible because it was so similar to RedTube (which friends tell me is a porn site.)

akomtu 5y ago
Not even a good one (an opinion of a consultant I hired to evaluate the site).
- TchoBeer 5y ago
  What need did you have to hire a consultant to evaluate a porn site
  - akomtu 5y ago
    Academic research.

tablespoon 5y ago

Such naming is part of my break-up plan for the tech giants. If you break Facebook up into three successor companies with competing networks, you run into the problem of what do with the Facebook brand. It would be unfair and counterproductive to give one the brand and have the other two create new ones, so my idea is to give them color versions (e.g. Facebook Red, Facebook Green, Facebook Purple). Eventually they'd probably rebrand, but it's the best solution I can think of to start.

pedrogpimenta 5y ago
I know, I understand it, I thought that too. It's just my opinion, I still think it's a silly name.

everdrive 5y ago

Youtube Red sounded extra stupid, since it sounds very close to RedTube, which is a pornographic video site.

thejosh 5y ago

I'm happy to pay for YT Red for no ads, background play etc on my mobile devices. I use the platform quite a bit and it's fine for that. If you're really cheap you can signup through their indian link for a couple of dollars a month.

cblconfederate 5y ago

They should charge extra for color shades other than blue

Andrex 5y ago

YouTube Premium is definitely a much better name for the service.