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Twitter is now X (www.twitter.com)
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[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

Apparently Elon has a thing for the letter X. SpaceX, naming his son "X Æ A-12", and now renaming Twitter.

[-] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

X.com was the startup Musk (and others) launched in 1999. It merged with another startup to create PayPal in 2000. Musk bought the X.com domain back a few years ago.

So yea, he's been obsessed with the letter X for a while. Other than SpaceX, there's also Tesla Model X.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Model X is called that because he wanted the models to spell SEXY - but Ford still owns "Model E" so he had to go with S3XY instead.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Who could blame the greatest minds from being entranced by a mysterious "X"?

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Not risking that click 😉

PS. Is Rick-Rolling allowed here, or was that just on R?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It's X from the Mega Man X video game series.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

But SpaceX at least is only short for Space Exploration Technologies Corporation

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Yeah, nothing to do with a man-child giggling that it sounds like space-sex a bit.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

But they don't do exploration? They just do orbit stuff

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Spac Explorathun.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

"Schadenfreude ist die beste Freude" :p

Facebook/Meta owns the trademark for "X" for use in social networking.

Microsoft owns the trademark for "X" for use in finance/e-commerce.

https://themessenger.com/tech/twitters-rebrand-to-x-could-be-a-trademark-nightmare-thanks-to-microsoft

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