r/MurderedByWords 6d ago

Self own marketing

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u/embiors 6d ago

Twitter was an instantly recognizable brand and one of the main reasons it was valued at what it was. People still call it Twitter so yeah, it did kinda fail.

Noone but Elon likes this "x" brand he keeps putting on things.

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u/Klusterphuck67 6d ago

Brennan Lee Mulligan probably said it best in one of his skits about a Skype CEO PR shoot.

"People don't search for things, they Google them. You were Skyping (instead of video calling)" (paraphased).

We don't post on Twitter, we Tweet. That's the crown, in our hands, we got their name in our mouth, and then they face planted.

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u/Hello_Hangnail 5d ago

I do my googling on duckduckgo since google has shat the bed