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I think the biggest part that he is wiping away how "tweeting" has become part of the language we use.
Similar to Hoovering or Xeroxing (I do know both of those brands are not so main stream anymore)
Feel there could have been a different path (like xtweet, twitter by x, or done a bird noise things like tweets or chirps).
I don't think he will for a couple of reasons, the first being that the url is still (and will probably remain) twitter.com.
Personally I think this is just marketing, change it to X to get everyone speaking about it. Maybe the share price has dropped, or advertising isn't going so well. It's like when he changed the logo to the Dogecoin logo, everyone was losing their shit, saying, "oh my god, Elon's going crypto with twitter!"
As I opined at the time, no he isn't, it's just a publicity stunt.
This one is better because it has everyone talking about it (including us) and not just the crypto heads.
The second reason is the cost of rebranding, it would be pretty phenomenal to rebrand all of the APIs, literature and other materials and all for what? Nobody in the history of the site, has ever stopped using it because of its name.
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