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Twitter is now X

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Twitter is now X

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  • @red@feddit.de
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    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.

    • JohnEdwa
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      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.

      • Baggins
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        What a tool.

    • TommySalami
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      Who could blame the greatest minds from being entranced by a mysterious “X”?

      • Dandroid
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        My personal favorite X

        • Baggins
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          Not risking that click 😉

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

          • Dandroid
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            It’s X from the Mega Man X video game series.

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

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

      • @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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        But they don’t do exploration? They just do orbit stuff

        • MaggiWuerze
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          Yet

      • @loops@beehaw.org
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        Spac Explorathun.

    • @marco@beehaw.org
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      “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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