, as several tweeters assumed, lifted without permission from the historic Monotype design company. This launch … has not been seamless. There’s not one but two possible copyright disputes. There are branding inconsistencies. And even the San Francisco police have gotten involved. Most importantly, there are accidental metaphors. Let’s review them.The first troubles began on Sunday, right after Musk announced the Unicode 𝕏 as Twitter’s new logo.
In an afternoon tweet, he announced that X.com—formerly the domain and official name for the, which would subsequently morph into PayPal—would start redirecting to Twitter. You could even type in your Twitter handle after an X.com/ URL command and get to your profile. Except, that’s not what happened, initially: Several high-profile users, including newspaper reporters and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, posted screenshots demonstrating how X.comThis is what X dot com redirects to for me.