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> X.com is pretty stupid as well, you can't meaningfully use it as a brand. Just "x" alone isn't really the brand. It's more like "x.com" is the canonical nam

> X.com is pretty stupid as well, you can't meaningfully use it as a brand. Just "x" alone isn't really the brand. It's more like "x.com" is the canonical name. From that perspective, "x" or "x.com" is about as good as brand recognition can get. It's simple and perfectly descriptive of an "everything app" and payment processing business.

eli 3y ago
It's not though. Musk writes it as a single stylized letter and the company name is "X Corp" not "X.com"
- sublinear 3y ago
  Ah did not know that. This is the only genuine answer in this entire thread!
bad_user 3y ago
Except it's missing the "everything" aspect, payments processing, or the support of the Chinese government.
- vasco 3y ago
  They're working on it (probably minus the china part). Question is if they go bankrupt before then, or if anyone will still use the service by then. https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/05/x-is-now-licensed-for-payment-processing-in-a-dozen-u-s-states/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/05/x-is-now-licensed-for-paym...
FartyMcFarter 3y ago
> It's more like "x.com" is the canonical name. It sounds like a porn website. I don't think most business owners would want this as their brand, but I guess Elon is special in this way as well.
- edgyquant 3y ago
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  - debugnik 3y ago
    Tesla models S 3 X Y, SpaceX is homonymous with space-sex, and yet you think x.com wasn't meant to sound like a porn site? Musk clearly has a thing for 12yo jokes.
  - FartyMcFarter 3y ago
    I would have thought someone with the nickname "edgyquant" wouldn't be so judgemental.
- da_chicken 3y ago
  Elon is special in a lot of ways. Twitter had one of the strongest brands. Not in social media, not in technology, just one of the strongest brands period. Do people realize how rare and difficult that is to do? That little blue bird was everywhere. Elon just gave it up. Flushed it away. Kind of like those advertising contracts.
  - kaba0 3y ago
    It is indeed his biggest mismanagement, but it’s a serious competition. At least it broke the image of ‘CEOs must be intelligent’, that was wide spread in certain circles.
    - FredPret 3y ago
      You don't think he's smart? Maybe he did it for the lol's, or to own his political opponents, or maybe it was just a mistake he locked himself into. All of which sound just like him. Rockets don't fly and electric cars don't drive if they aren't built right, which puts a floor on the IQ of the man who is that involved and hands-on with it. Being early in a major startup is a big deal, never mind a whole string of them. He may or may not be weird or an asshole but he sure ain't stupid. EDIT: I've been on the fence about this guy ever since I read his most recent biography, but it's really hilarious how saying something even remotely positive about him brings out an crowd who is enraged at his very being and the notion that such a thing as competence might exist.
7ewis 3y ago
I personally like brand names that _look_ like they could be words, but aren't like Spotify, Twitter, Monzo, Reddit, Google etc. Believe they need to be short and easy to Google even if you don't know how to spell them (not saying the above brand names are perfect). Find it annoying hearing Xero having to be spelt out on the radio to stop people going to zero.com. Not particularly a fan of combining two English words together like Facebook, Freetrade, GitHub etc. but the worst is when companies try to own a common word like Apple.
- n3150n 3y ago
  Twitter is a word in itself, though, both a verb and a noun [0]. [0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twitter https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twitter
  - joshmanders 3y ago
    Which is where they got their name from. It perfectly describes what Twitter is and was meant to be.
- type0 3y ago
  > when companies try to own a common word like Apple. I wish there was a competitor called Banana, powered by minions
sdenton4 3y ago
X.com is where you go to save Earth from the alien invasion.
- scotty79 3y ago
  Not to be confused with https://www.x-kom.pl/ https://www.x-kom.pl/ which is where you go to buy parts for your new PC if you live in Poland.
- sumtechguy 3y ago
  please tell me he is building underground bunkers
riffruff24 3y ago
Did you mean X-COM, the 1994 turn based game? Or XCOM, the 2012 reboot of the same game? I jest but those Firaxis guys must be eager to do something about this whole thing before twitter blew up. Its around the time for the third installment of the reboot.
drivers99 3y ago
Or "Brand X", the generic "other leading brand" of old commercials, and therefore associated with inferiority in general.

eli 3y ago

It's not though. Musk writes it as a single stylized letter and the company name is "X Corp" not "X.com"

sublinear 3y ago
Ah did not know that. This is the only genuine answer in this entire thread!

bad_user 3y ago

Except it's missing the "everything" aspect, payments processing, or the support of the Chinese government.

vasco 3y ago
They're working on it (probably minus the china part). Question is if they go bankrupt before then, or if anyone will still use the service by then. https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/05/x-is-now-licensed-for-payment-processing-in-a-dozen-u-s-states/ https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/05/x-is-now-licensed-for-paym...

FartyMcFarter 3y ago

> It's more like "x.com" is the canonical name. It sounds like a porn website. I don't think most business owners would want this as their brand, but I guess Elon is special in this way as well.

edgyquant 3y ago
[flagged]
- debugnik 3y ago
  Tesla models S 3 X Y, SpaceX is homonymous with space-sex, and yet you think x.com wasn't meant to sound like a porn site? Musk clearly has a thing for 12yo jokes.
- FartyMcFarter 3y ago
  I would have thought someone with the nickname "edgyquant" wouldn't be so judgemental.
da_chicken 3y ago
Elon is special in a lot of ways. Twitter had one of the strongest brands. Not in social media, not in technology, just one of the strongest brands period. Do people realize how rare and difficult that is to do? That little blue bird was everywhere. Elon just gave it up. Flushed it away. Kind of like those advertising contracts.
- kaba0 3y ago
  It is indeed his biggest mismanagement, but it’s a serious competition. At least it broke the image of ‘CEOs must be intelligent’, that was wide spread in certain circles.
  - FredPret 3y ago
    You don't think he's smart? Maybe he did it for the lol's, or to own his political opponents, or maybe it was just a mistake he locked himself into. All of which sound just like him. Rockets don't fly and electric cars don't drive if they aren't built right, which puts a floor on the IQ of the man who is that involved and hands-on with it. Being early in a major startup is a big deal, never mind a whole string of them. He may or may not be weird or an asshole but he sure ain't stupid. EDIT: I've been on the fence about this guy ever since I read his most recent biography, but it's really hilarious how saying something even remotely positive about him brings out an crowd who is enraged at his very being and the notion that such a thing as competence might exist.

7ewis 3y ago

I personally like brand names that _look_ like they could be words, but aren't like Spotify, Twitter, Monzo, Reddit, Google etc. Believe they need to be short and easy to Google even if you don't know how to spell them (not saying the above brand names are perfect). Find it annoying hearing Xero having to be spelt out on the radio to stop people going to zero.com. Not particularly a fan of combining two English words together like Facebook, Freetrade, GitHub etc. but the worst is when companies try to own a common word like Apple.

n3150n 3y ago
Twitter is a word in itself, though, both a verb and a noun [0]. [0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twitter https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twitter
- joshmanders 3y ago
  Which is where they got their name from. It perfectly describes what Twitter is and was meant to be.
type0 3y ago
> when companies try to own a common word like Apple. I wish there was a competitor called Banana, powered by minions

sdenton4 3y ago

X.com is where you go to save Earth from the alien invasion.

scotty79 3y ago
Not to be confused with https://www.x-kom.pl/ https://www.x-kom.pl/ which is where you go to buy parts for your new PC if you live in Poland.
sumtechguy 3y ago
please tell me he is building underground bunkers

riffruff24 3y ago

Did you mean X-COM, the 1994 turn based game? Or XCOM, the 2012 reboot of the same game? I jest but those Firaxis guys must be eager to do something about this whole thing before twitter blew up. Its around the time for the third installment of the reboot.

drivers99 3y ago

Or "Brand X", the generic "other leading brand" of old commercials, and therefore associated with inferiority in general.