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submitted 2 years ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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

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[-] june@lemmy.world 49 points 2 years 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@kbin.social 33 points 2 years 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@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years 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@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Synthuir@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

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

—Musk, probably

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world -2 points 2 years ago

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

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