Apple rejects new name 'X' for Twitter iOS app because... rules

www.bleepingcomputer.com Apple rejects new name 'X' for Twitter iOS app because... rules

Mr. Musk may have successfully pushed Twitter's new name and logo, 'X', and even made the vanity domain x.com redirect to the social media website, but that's not to say, the Mathematical double-struck letter will fit the bill everywhere. Apple's App Store can't accept Twitter iOS app's new name due...

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I'm sure this won't end up being a huge deal, but the funny part is that this apparently wasn't planned for. Gives you some insight into how much of a shit show Twitter/X HQ must be right now.
- I think it's fait to just call it Twitter and not "x" or "twitter/x" or "x social" or "Twitter but actually x"
  X will never stick 😅
  
  I think I’m okay with it being referred to as “the social media network formerly known as Twitter” from here on out.
  
  I'm not. Prince was awesome. He changed his name to a symbol because Warner Bros trademarked his name and wouldn't let him do what he wanted with his own music. People started calling him The Artist Formally Know as Prince. But the reason was ignored and everyone made fun of him.
  Musk is an idiot and loser and shouldn't be even tangentially compared to Prince.
  I much prefer to call it "10"
  
  This might hurt a little, but I don’t think most people today know who Prince is. I just know that he was a musician. That sentence is also a commonly used sentence in such scenarios, unrelated to one person.
  
  Call it "no", or maybe "close button".
  
  No idea who prince except he's a musician but "the site formerly known as Twitter" sounds hilarious
  
  formerly known as
  
  Aye yai yai. Yes, thank you.
  
  I think you're a little silly for assuming that directly references Prince. I wasn't even alive when all that stuff with Prince was happening and I had only heard it happened in a conversation I had with my mom when I was like 12.
  That's just kinda what you call something that was formerly known as something else when the something else is not well received.
  
  It was popularized by the Prince situation whether people know that today or not.
  
  eX-Twitter.
  
  “Elon, stop trying to make X happen. It’s not going to happen.”
  
  It was cool in the 90s like i in front of a word was cool in the 00/10s. That was his era.
- It's been renamed to X on my partner's iPhone so they seem to have gotten round it already.
- That's crazy. He wants to turn the app into an everything app and there isn't even concrete plans in place. Wish I could be a fly on the wall in their meetings. If they even have one.

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