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.
this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2023
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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.
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