LOL they really renamed it X? I see they even bought x.com which surely they paid some ridiculous amount for, and yet they wasn’t able to spend any cent on original logo, at least X.org logo as an orange O.
Musk has owned the X.com domain since at least 2017. [1] And even that was buying it back from PayPal. X.com was an online bank co-founded by Musk in 1999 which was later on merged into PayPal. [2]
Elon has personally owned x.com for a number of years now. Timeline as I remember it is Elon bought it in the late 90's, it changed hands when paypal merged with Elon's payment company, then he bought it back in 2017ish
Still make me laugh. I doubt the 2017 transfer costed $10. Let’s just recall all the more that domains are never really own, and that seems all the more crazy to my mind. Though I guess that when you let single individuals able to claim indefinitely large amount of ownership, that’s unavoidable waste of resources.
I don’t criticize any individual for simply implementing what the social structure lead them to do. That is, my messages were not meant into "name and shame" any specific person. That’s really the overall social game that I found laughable.
Using a unicode character might have been deliberate. It lets anyone stick your logo on a post on another platform. Allows viral marketing even in places where posting an image is high friction and/or where hyperlinks are banned.
We'll have to wait and see if such a move is a good one...
Elon Musk re-bought the domain 6 years ago, after having originally owned it since 1999, apparently being very attached to it [0]. As for the logo, yeah, I agree there.
