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HLMenckenFan to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago

Elon Musk Rebranded Twitter as 'X.' Users Immediately Rejected the Change

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HLMenckenFan to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago
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Twitter Users Criticize Elon Musk's Rebrand to 'X'
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Elon Musk has turned Twitter into 'X,' inspiring confusion
  • tal
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    It looks kind of similar to Xorg’s logo to me.

    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/X.Org_Logo.svg/1279px-X.Org_Logo.svg.png

    I mean, his is embosssed, but if I were choosing a logo for my new brand “x.com”, I don’t think I’d choose something that looks a lot like x.org’s logo.

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      It’s worse, unicode already has the “𝕏” character for the past 22 years:

      https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F

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        Oh, that’s also a thought. IIRC Intel tried trademarking the letter “i” at one point and the USPTO wouisn’t allow it, so I dunno if a single-character trademark is considered distinctive enough. Xorg’s has more stuff to it than just the base letter.

      • Resol van Lemmy
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        Despite this, when I do a Google search on “𝕏”, it pretends that I searched for “X”.

        So although it may look different, it behaves all the same.

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