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Elon May Have a Huge Issue Because Microsoft Owns the “X” Trademark (futurism.com)
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[–] 50 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I can understand a company like Google (Alphabet) and Facebook (Meta) re-branding their wider business infrastructure. Twitter is just Twitter. X is just nostalgia, and Musk is being totally irresponsible with these announcments. He is a petulant little child, looking for attention and the likes. Damn childish - his entire Twitter venture.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    X is just nostalgia,

    How is 'X' nostalgia?

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  • [–] 36 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Elon started x.com back when he was balding.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    But wasn’t x.com PayPal?

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  • [–] 31 points 3 years ago

    Yes, mostly.

    X.com was Musk's site after he worked at Scotiabank. They merged with another site that had a product called Paypal that was getting some traction. Musk tried to tie the other services X.com was offering at the hip with Paypal, and if you're old enough you probably remember a "Paypal by X.com" (or similar) branding back when you needed to buy a used 56k modem from eBay.

    Musk wanted to rebrand everything to x.com, was a huge baby about it, and got pushed out as an executive and replaced by Peter Thiel. A few years ago, Musk purchased the X.com domain name from Paypal like it was a treasured childhood sled, and he's finally found something (very stupid) to do with it.

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