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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 e
by 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 agoWhatever happened to good ol' "Plus"? Although, god forbid they come up with a "Twitter Pro"...
- wcarss 5y agoI also immediately thought of 'plus' -- I wonder if there would be a trademark issue because of "Google Plus"?
- adenozine 5y agoWhat? Do you think they own the idea of addition?
- TchoBeer 5y agoPublishing in mathematics has been a nightmare ever since Google merged with the abstract concept of addition
- wcarss 5y agoI 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 agoThey should have chosen something like "Twitter Baller" - appealing to their core demographic while not diminishing the standard tier.
- PoignardAzur 5y ago"Twittest"
- monkeybutton 5y agoTwitter Most™
- TchoBeer 5y agoI'm getting the weirdest powerful deja Vu from this post.
- drdec 5y agoThey are saving Twitter+ for the name of the inevitable streaming service
- Andrex 5y agoTwitter still has the worst embedded video player of any "big tech" co, god help us...