The recent change from Twitter to X caused quite a lot of chaos. I was one of them who experienced this change first hand, and the first thought I had was “this is really stupid.” And I still think it is, here are some reasons why.

  1. It threw away all of Twitter’s identity and reputation. With the blue bird gone, the X is just a hollow character with no feelings.

  2. It shows how little the owner of the company cares about it. It’s not a fitting change for the website, neither is it a welcome one. The owner does not seem to care about the culture and feelings of the users.

  3. It’s another nail on the coffin Twitter built around itself. With the API changes, changes in moderation policies, monetization changes, it’s another unwelcome change for the community.

  4. It’s unreasonable. There’s no good reason for the change at all.

I hope that either the Twitter community stays strong throughout these changes, or everything burns down as fast as possible and a better site appears. The latter seems more likely though.