It appears Instagram and FB owner Meta holds the trademark for “X” as it relates to “online social networking services… social networking services in the fields of entertainment, gaming and application development…”
Elon Musk says if done right, X would become half of the global financial system.
Using a standard Unicode X as a logo means it can’t be copyrighted, which is objectively extremely funny! It’s pretty common for logos to not be able to be copyrighted, often because they’re just simple shapes or text. They are usually, however, protected by trademarks.
He always wanted to copy WeChat
1. Buy Twitter
2. Copy WeChat
3. Profit
And there’s been coverage around the fact that Elon Musk once tried to change PayPal to X, but, thanks to leadership at PayPal at the time, he was unable to do so. But, what’s different now?Those who hold power at Twitter don’t say anything.
In 2000, Elon Musk tried to rebrand PayPal as http://X.com, but was forced out by the board and replaced as CEO by Peter Thiel.
23 years ago http://x.com was forced to rebrand as PayPal against Elon Musk’s wishes and he’s held onto that resentment ever since.
X.Com is Created by Elon Musk in 1999
http://X.com Snapshot taken 23 years ago. Dated: 01/Mar/2000
The 1st homepage for Elon Musk’s http://X.com Looks a lot like #Bitcoin
X.com was owned by paypal but Musk bought it back off them in 2017.
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