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
  • netrom@infosec.pub
    3602·
    2 years ago

    “What about X and a space, either before or after?” software developer Yusuf Alp suggested a potential workaround in response to Berlin’s post.

    “He already has a company called SpaceX,” chuckled Berlin.

    Gold.

  • curryandbeans
    1831·
    2 years ago

    This is your hourly reminder that being born into a family that owns an emerald mine doesn’t automatically make you a fucking genius

    • Queen HawlSera@lemm.ee
      611·
      2 years ago

      I don’t know what’s sadder, that he tried to say that the Emerald Mine was a myth or that my Libertarian friends bought that shit.

  • Tots
    1571·
    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@kbin.social
      591·
      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
        451·
        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
          541·
          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”

          • Rakn@discuss.tchncs.de
            114·
            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.

          • OtakuAltair@lemm.ee
            2·
            2 years ago

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

          • Dylpickles
            616·
            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.

            • can@sh.itjust.works
              41·
              2 years ago

              It was popularized by the Prince situation whether people know that today or not.

      • 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.

            • can@sh.itjust.works
              2·
              2 years ago

              He tried to do this 20 years ago with PayPal. This is just a midlife crisis, no grand plan.

    • Ready! Player 31
      62·
      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
      15·
      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.

  • Dankry
    1097·
    2 years ago

    Lol awesome. Fuck Elon Musk.

  • Spendies
    56·
    2 years ago

    Seems obvious. They should just add 2 more X’s.

  • jeffwM
    52·
    2 years ago

    Pretty easy solution. Just show it in the App Store as “X - A Social Media App” or some shit

  • Violet_McQuasional@feddit.uk
    51·
    2 years ago

    It’s quite something how Twitter has been constantly tinkered with since musk took over, and instead of making any tangible improvements, it’s actually just created more mess.

  • sebinspace
    371·
    2 years ago

    Inb4 he throws an ego-driven temper tantrum because they won’t make an exception to a rule that has existed since the dawn of the app store specifically for his special ass.

    • LemmyLefty
      221·
      2 years ago

      “Did you know Steve Jobs was a pedo?” “Oh shut up, Elon.”

    • Wilshire
      41·
      2 years ago

      Read that as “dawn of the ape store”

    • gkd
      103·
      2 years ago

      I admittedly didn’t read the article. Is that the reason or does someone already have an app called X? Either way they can just call it like “X - Formerly known as Twitter” but he’s probably too childish to do that.

      • IDatedSuccubi
        5·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, there’s just a minimum requirement on app names in the store

  • Louisoix@lemm.ee
    26·
    2 years ago

    Good. I’m all for (even the smallest) confrontations between shitty billionaires and/or shitty corporations.

    • LegionEris
      11·
      2 years ago

      Right? Shit politicians too. Ron DeSantis got me rootin’ for fucking Disney. I hate Disney in general, but I wish they’d play more serious Illuminati hardball with DeSantis.