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Twitter’s new X logo wasn’t made by an in-house designer. It’s from an old podcast hosted by one of the cult that Elon took from his replies.

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[–] SpaceNoodle 243 points 1 year ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (2 children)

elon coming for your copyright infringement!

[–] TheOhNoNotAgain 15 points 1 year ago

Is all of internet going to turn into a 24th glyph thing?

[–] Joemc72 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The claw's gonna gitcha.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago
[–] AlmightySnoo 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does this mean? Is this latex?

[–] AlmightySnoo 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, in a LaTeX formula \mathbb{X} produces exactly that logo.

[–] Speculater 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] SpaceNoodle 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I already made that joke yesterday

[–] Speculater 4 points 1 year ago

Well keep it going!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Maybe that’s the point though? You were able to type it into a comment and have it pop up on our screen identically to the actual logo.

He wants people to type the symbol instead of ‘X’

He might not care about trademarking it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If that's the case, then he is severely overestimating two populations:

  • people who know how to input unicode characters

  • people who want to talk about twitter

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
  • People who had math in high school and have seen blackboard bold/double struck characters
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago
  1. Copy/Paste
  2. It seems like a lot of people are talking about twitter even if mostly negative. I see it in the news and online way more often than before Elon bought it. And we are talking about it now ;)