Elon Musk renamed Twitter to "X" as part of his latest company overhaul, but it looks like Meta already holds the rights to the name.
  • Prater@lemmy.worldEnglish
    401·
    2 years ago

    I hope I’m not alone in finding it utterly ridiculous that a company can literally hold rights over a single letter.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      2 years ago

      Microsoft has it for Xbox, so it would be difficult to apply here.

      Meta has it for a social media and I stant messaging app…

      If they don’t challenge this, they’re basically giving it away for free. So they pretty much have to challenge

    • fubo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      Lots of big companies register lots of really dumb trademarks, even for things that they don’t end up producing. Most of them would be thrown out in court.

  • Strangle@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Can he just change it to “X-Treme”? And use X for short?

    Or does Mountain Dew have that one too?

  • sudo_shinespark@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Didn’t Xfinity recently rebrand itself to use just an X for most things, too?

    I’m beginning to question this guy’s decision making skills /s

  • RickRussell_CA@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Well, throw it in the closet with the electric guitar, the karate suit, the Boring Company, and that crazy vacuum train thing. Just another one of Musk’s dumb ideas that never got anywhere.

  • anlumo@feddit.deEnglish
    21·
    2 years ago

    So it’s a trademark for a logo that doesn’t resemble the one Musk uses now that happens to use the same letter. It’s is a complete nothingburger.