San Francisco has opened a complaint and launched an investigation of a giant “X” sign that cropped up Friday on top of the downtown headquarters of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter

  • @june
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    501 year ago

    Apparently they are still referring to it as Twitter in the update notes, and can’t change the name to X in iOS because Apple has a 2 character minimum for app names.

    • MisterMoo
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      331 year ago

      Plus the fact that X is already trademarked in many countries.

      All of which they’d know if their dumbass CEO — er, I mean their CTO who definitely isn’t running the company because they have a CEO who is a different person — had bothered to look into it.

    • @jiji
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      51 year ago

      On iOS I only just yesterday finally got a suggested app update so the icon could change. It’s been the bird still all week. Not exactly prepared, were they.

    • 10A
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      31 year ago

      I guess they must count graphemes instead of bytes — “𝕩” is four bytes.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        “Great, can’t wait to open up my U+1D54F app and send off a bunch of U+1D54Fs!”

        —Musk, probably

        • @betterdeadthanreddit
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          -21 year ago

          It’s sweet that he’d rename it again in honor of his next child. What a swell guy.