San Francisco has opened a complaint and launched an investigation of a giant “X” sign that cropped up Friday on top of the downtown headquarters of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter

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    Apparently they are still referring to it as Twitter in the update notes, and can’t change the name to X in iOS because Apple has a 2 character minimum for app names.

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      Plus the fact that X is already trademarked in many countries.

      All of which they’d know if their dumbass CEO — er, I mean their CTO who definitely isn’t running the company because they have a CEO who is a different person — had bothered to look into it.

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      I guess they must count graphemes instead of bytes — “𝕩” is four bytes.

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      On iOS I only just yesterday finally got a suggested app update so the icon could change. It’s been the bird still all week. Not exactly prepared, were they.

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    Interesting that Musk has money for this, but somehow can’t pay any of twitter’s other bills.

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      I don’t know that he has money for this. It appears to be fashioned out of plastic coat hangers they had lying around.

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      He’s a spoiled, self-congratulatory, masturbatory narcissist who has never experienced even basic levels of hardship.

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    City officials say replacing letters or symbols on buildings, or erecting a sign on top of one, requires a permit for design and safety reasons.

    OK but this is pretty ridiculous too