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Meta already appears to hold the rights to 'X.' It could make Twitter's rebrand complicated.
(www.businessinsider.com)
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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.
Boy, they got lucky nobody already has that
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.