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Meta already appears to hold the rights to 'X.' It could make Twitter's rebrand complicated.
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this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2023
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I hope I'm not alone in finding it utterly ridiculous that a company can literally hold rights over a single letter.
Keep in mind that it's in a particular context. It seems a bit ridiculous as a headline, but if they were actively using the branding, it might not seem so ridiculous: imagine Facebook (I will not call them Meta) is already operating a social media site for posting short thoughts called X with the TLD social (hypothetically). And they've been operating it as
Xfor 10 years. Then Elon does this. Clearly Facebook has a suit because that's straight-up infringement.This is a little more hazy because Facebook isn't actively using their X trademark, and it's not exactly the same as Twitter. But they do hold the rights to it (as far as I can tell from the one tweet (xeet?) about it). And it's not (quite) as ridiculous as it sounds.
Also,
Is this a euphemism for the poop emoji??
A “tweet” is now an “x”. So somebody x’d that x was already trademarked. Dumb as fuck. My 8 year old is even over here calling Elon a dumbass.
So instead of tweeting something do they now "X it out"?
Yes. And for Twitter videos they are now “x-videos”. Should help draw traffic to the site.
so, I'm just going out on a limb here, but instead of liking something, do you now "x-rate" something?
No, when you downvote the X simply flips upside down to clearly show you disliked it.
Boy, they got lucky nobody already has that
Tell that potty-mouth to watch their language!
I do but he can’t help to shit on Elon. Gotta pick your battles as a parent and all.
No. musk retired the poop emoji auto reply recently for the “we’ll get back to you soon”
Yeah and it's getting in the way of my schadenfreude
If it makes you feel any better, the CEO of Oracle, Larry Ellison, pretty much bought out the entire island of Lanai from the state of Hawaii.
So a letter doesn’t surprise me too much.