Mr. Musk may have successfully pushed Twitter's new name and logo, 'X', and even made the vanity domain x.com redirect to the social media website, but that's not to say, the Mathematical double-struck letter will fit the bill everywhere. Apple's App Store can't accept Twitter iOS app's new name due to minimum character requirements
  • @Tots
    156•2 years ago

    I’m sure this won’t end up being a huge deal, but the funny part is that this apparently wasn’t planned for. Gives you some insight into how much of a shit show Twitter/X HQ must be right now.

    • Puppy
      58•2 years ago

      I think it’s fait to just call it Twitter and not “x” or “twitter/x” or “x social” or “Twitter but actually x”

      X will never stick 😅

      • Overzeetop
        44•2 years ago

        I think I’m okay with it being referred to as “the social media network formerly known as Twitter” from here on out.

        • @Cmot_Dibbler
          53•2 years ago

          I’m not. Prince was awesome. He changed his name to a symbol because Warner Bros trademarked his name and wouldn’t let him do what he wanted with his own music. People started calling him The Artist Formally Know as Prince. But the reason was ignored and everyone made fun of him.

          Musk is an idiot and loser and shouldn’t be even tangentially compared to Prince.

          I much prefer to call it “10”

          • @Buddahriffic
            10•2 years ago

            Call it “no”, or maybe “close button”.

          • @[email protected]
            7•2 years ago

            This might hurt a little, but I don’t think most people today know who Prince is. I just know that he was a musician. That sentence is also a commonly used sentence in such scenarios, unrelated to one person.

          • @[email protected]
            2•2 years ago

            No idea who prince is except he’s a musician but “the site formerly known as Twitter” sounds hilarious

          • Dylpickles
            -10•2 years ago

            I think you’re a little silly for assuming that directly references Prince. I wasn’t even alive when all that stuff with Prince was happening and I had only heard it happened in a conversation I had with my mom when I was like 12. A conversation suddenly brought back to mind by your comment.

            That’s just kinda what you call something that was formerly known as something else when the something else is not well received.

      • eric
        26•2 years ago

        “Elon, stop trying to make X happen. It’s not going to happen.”

        • @saltesc
          10•2 years ago

          It was cool in the 90s like i in front of a word was cool in the 00/10s. That was his era.

            • @Buddahriffic
              4•2 years ago

              Leaded gas just started being phased out in the US in 1973 was still in use in the 80s was didn’t stop entirely until 1996. South Africa didn’t ban it until sometime between 2002 and 2006. It’s often used in reference to boomers, but gen x was also affected, even millennials to a lesser degree.

    • Ready! Player 31
      4•2 years ago

      It’s been renamed to X on my partner’s iPhone so they seem to have gotten round it already.

      • @deranger
        6•2 years ago

        They haven’t. It’s still Twitter in the App Store. The icon/app name on your phone is not what the article is discussing.

      • @asparagapple
        5•2 years ago

        Same for me but the App Store page for the app still says Twitter. Changing it there requires approval I think.

        • @SheeEttin
          2•2 years ago

          If it’s like Android apps, the name in the app store and on the phone can be different.

    • @Here_in_Malaysia
      -4•2 years ago

      That’s crazy. He wants to turn the app into an everything app and there isn’t even concrete plans in place. Wish I could be a fly on the wall in their meetings. If they even have one.