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Everyone calls it Twitter. I think they will as long as it exists. Millions of companies have branded signs and webpages with the little bird logo. They ain't
by nonrandomstring 3y ago
Everyone calls it Twitter.
I think they will as long as it exists.
Millions of companies have branded signs and webpages with the
little bird logo. They ain't gonna change that. There are millions
of brochures, menus, pamphlets even textbooks with the name and logo.
Musk lost control of Twitter the same way that Google long ago lost
control of the verb word "google" as a trademark via common usage.
No doubt that infuriates him, and it will be fun to see what happens
when he cannot force the world to say "X" and is defeated by the
popular will to just keep saying Twitter.
- evan_ 3y ago> Musk lost control of Twitter the same way that Google long ago lost control of the verb word "google" as a trademark via common usage Not really comparable though- when someone says "google it" they mean "use whatever search engine is configured in your browser to look it up". Nobody has ever said "I saw it on twitter" when they actually saw it on TikTok.
- smoldesu 3y ago> Musk lost control of Twitter the same way that Google long ago lost control of the verb word "google" as a trademark via common usage. Twitter or X, Musk owns them both. From a sociopathic satisfaction perspective, I doubt he's losing sleep over the people making iOS shortcuts to bring back the little blue bird icon. The better thing to call it is 'dead'. No private platform should be as depended-on as Twitter was. Our mistakes will inform the future of social media.