Twitter is transforming into X, as the site’s former bird logo has now been replaced by an official new X logo. Elon Musk, who owns the transformed social media site, began signaling the change early Sunday morning with a series of tweets, starting with one that said, “and soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.”

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
    24·
    1 year ago

    Couldn’t even pay for the new logo…

    Twitter replaced the logo after Musk requested for people to post logo submissions and that “if a good enough X logo is posted tonight, we’ll make go live worldwide tomorrow.” Musk then pinned a tweet featuring a video created by a Twitter user named Sawyer Merritt and changed his own profile photo to the new X logo. Musk did note that the new X logo is an “interim” one, so it could be replaced at a later stage.

    • Frz@lemm.ee
      11·
      1 year ago

      Uh, what? There’s gotta be some copyright issues with doing this…

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
        6·
        1 year ago

        I mean, a functional company would have made it a legit co tests with terms/Conditions so that they owned every submission or at least the winner.

        Musk probably just sent the tweet and picked a winner, so yeah, they may not own it and if they start using it the creator may be able to sue.

      • EnderWi99in@kbin.social
        4·
        1 year ago

        How? He’s owned “X” for decades. It was the name of his first company. Dude is obsessed with calling everything X.

          • kirklennon@kbin.social
            2·
            1 year ago

            US copyright law doesn’t allow for protection of something like that. A dingbat, yes, but if it’s very plainly recognizable as an X then the exact shape and output of that typeface isn’t protectable. You can even print out a font, scan it, and create a new copycat font from it. The only thing you can’t do is reproduce the actual typeface file itself, which is fundamentally a single copyrighted piece of software. Some other countries allow more protection on the shapes of individual letters, but I don’t think you’d ever win a case anywhere on such a simple geometric shape as this X.

          • BailOrgana@kbin.social
            4·
            1 year ago

            Not really; the XOrg logo is clearly designed in two parts, with a break between the two sections. It’s absolutely reminiscent of it, though, just different enough that you can’t really call it a copy.

          • blivet@kbin.social
            5·
            1 year ago

            That’s just anonymized data. I own a few domains, and none of the whois information points to me personally.

    • ombremad@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      What’s even funnier is that anyone pretending to be the creator of the logo is a liar. (It is a scammer’s website, after all.)

      It’s a symbol that’s part of the “mathematical alphanumerical symbols” subset of Unicode since ~2001: 𝕏, also known as Mathematical Double-Struck Capital X (U+1D54F).

    • Midnitte@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      No doubt infringement issues there - I’ve seen similar existing logos online, not to mention very old ones like X11.