What is the reason for the X

[OgNasty]

The most simple reason for X existing is quite a dumb one, yet one that I believe to be true. Elon bought X.com a long time ago with an idea that this would be his site/app that everyone would use. That meant he was going to start branding things with X. SpaceX, Model X, etc. He’s taking this idea so far now that people are speculating he’s going to buy US Steel (a 5 billion dollar company) just to get their X ticker symbol.

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[jaberwock]

Simple: he likes X. For whatever reason, he’s probably the only one who knows. And to answer you question it does not affect users positively at all. If anything, it’s a huge downgrade. He’s taken the unique identity of twitter and made it into something so unfamiliar and unrecognizable. Comparing to facebook and instagram, twitter was the only one who had its own verb substituting for the word ‘post’. If you say ‘tweet’, everyone knows you’re talking about twitter. He even changed that and went for the generic term ‘post’. Hope he realizes how important these unique traits to the app.

Some says that it's because he has a Space'X company and then they also have Xcorp. I saw this Xcorp when I download the Twitter/X app in the Google Playstore. I guess that seems the closest reason for it? There's also rumors that it's because of the latest XRP trend. Even if it isn't, XRP community is very happy because it makes their coin on hyped again. Then there are also other X'coins which are increasing.

To be honest I like the old Twitter logo and name so I think it affects their users in a negative way. It's supposed to be an upgrade, along with other things that they add on Twitter/X but maybe for us it is a huge downgrade.

[Gyfts]

It was meant to be a rebranding so "Twitter" could be incorporated into a multi-purpose app, but it turned to be a failure thus far. Hard to recall a company have such a rough landing with a company rebrand. Even though it's "X", you'll find its still called "Twitter" all over the web application and mobile app. Elon's stated his intentions are to turn Twitter into a payment platform, video publisher, etc. hence the rebranding, but at its current state, Twitter only has the utility of a social platform. They've rolled out a partner program that pays people for the impressions they garner, the intent being for posters to produce enticing original content.  But it's only turned the platform into a space where people bait out interaction by posting low effort content.

So much for "X".

[Majestic-milf]

 Trying to decipher why Elon Musk suddenly changed Twitter to X is quite amusing. He doesn't do the expected. No one expected he'd purchase Twitter last year October, but he did and made it private. Musk has been known to be all about innovation and him going for the letter X is not a far fetched idea considering he has several companies and products with that letter (Space X, X.com, and Tesla model X).
For me, I see this as a brilliant idea on his part to try and own a letter. X is a factor, and in maths, you are either solving to find X or you aren't.
 While many regard some of his actions as stupid, impulsive and careless, he doesn't care. I think the guy just takes pleasure in delving in areas people haven't thought of. I feel what most competitors and users alike will be concerned about is if rebranding Twitter to X will help change the narrative.

[Fortify]

Overtime I hardly made use of twitter account and it calls to my noticed that twitter logo was replaced to X instead of the previous logo. Now I was curious to know why such thing happened and why change logo X, does it positively affect the users in any way?
I don't know how many of you are regular user of twitter since I barely relates over there and I noticed is not cool for me to always use since the sold out to Elon Musk that was my ending love of using that social network.

If topic already existed I don't mind locking this thread.

Because Elon is an egotistical loser who happened to acquire this domain name many years ago around the era when he owned Paypal. Why has he done it? Because he bought twitter and overpaid by billions, so is now basically happy to use it as a further experiment and he's no interested in whether the hundreds of millions of users out there actually wanted it to happen. Twitter was a quirky name with a great brand reputation, but he has destroyed much of the good that used to come out from it. He's now using this massive social media network for political purposes, doing things such as throttling traffic to competing websites and eradicating large parts of the moderation team, because he scared off so many advertisers that don't want to be associated with him at all.

[JoyMarsha]

Twitter's ownership has changed, and Elon Musk, the new owner, is entirely within his rights to change the Twitter logo in any way he sees fit. Even the name, which is currently Twitter, is completely up to him.
The X in question may be the word he loves so much, and he wants to use it as the new Twitter logo to replace the one that the previous owner of Twitter has for Twitter. Thus, the Twitter X doesn't change or improve Twitter in any way. It's only a new symbol to understand for Twitter.

[goaldigger]

Probably a dream come true from Elon as he have this idea during his early stage and that could be the main idea behind its new logo. It could be a good marketing strategy as well and for sure it still be a big site in the future. We will get used to it, and we will see how this changed will impact the whole company and the whole social platform. I’m only into twitter/X because of the bounties.

[Cryptomultiplier]

The name change is supposed to mark the platform’s evolution from a social media tool to an “everything app” that includes banking, e-commerce, and expanded social features.

According to author Walter Isaacson, Musk has been on a mission to make fetch X.com happen since 1999. That year he launched the site offering a range of digital finance products, and the site eventually merged with another company becoming PayPal.

Since the initial version of X.com didn’t exactly revolutionize the financial system Musk is hoping to try again, this time using Twitter as the vehicle to do so. But does this evolution make sense for the app formerly known as Twitter?

https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/twitter-rebrand-x

We seem to share same bandwidth of thought here, because I pondered on this same question you created as a topic and I got a notification as a reasonable conclusion as to why Elon Musk rebranded to just 'X'.
The link I shared above, about sums up why Twitter is redesigned and undergoing rebranding.
I hope this gives a satisfactory response as to the reason for the X.

[Unbunplease]

Musk is a big fan of mystery and improvisation. X - Mr. X, the one who hides behind a mask. "To be disguised is my destiny," sang Mr. X. In other words, we are in for a global and unexpected change that is not even calculated right now. Musk has only hinted. Play only began...

[adaseb]

He changed the name because he wants it to be more of a social media platform, he wants to basically integrate financial payments and other features. If he kept the name, then people would just assume its just for tweeting.

This is similar to what Facebook did with Meta. You got Meta group of companies like Facebook and Instagram. And I am pretty sure Musk wants the same for X. So most likely there will be more products in the near future and they will all be under the X corp.

[teosanru]

Overtime I hardly made use of twitter account and it calls to my noticed that twitter logo was replaced to X instead of the previous logo. Now I was curious to know why such thing happened and why change logo X, does it positively affect the users in any way?
I don't know how many of you are regular user of twitter since I barely relates over there and I noticed is not cool for me to always use since the sold out to Elon Musk that was my ending love of using that social network.

If topic already existed I don't mind locking this thread.

I think probably it's because he wanted to change the concept of Twitter to a more open rewards-based social network where users are even paid for posting, a sort of like Web3 concept or even a Web4 concept. Maybe create a new age of Social networking which is why he did this. There are a lot of users of twitter and I have seen people even liking the concept of X obviously because they are getting paid nicely to have even 40-50k followers if you buy the blue tick.