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Jan Wildeboer ๐ท
Looking forward to #Musk trying to trademark a Unicode symbol, in this case ๐ :) Maybe we should start using #x1D54F as the new Hashtag for everything #Twitter and #X #๐ :) http://www.unicode-symbol.com/u/1D54F.html
I mean, if your level of creativity and inspiration ends at "let's look at weird symbols in my character map" and copy-pasting ๐ in your photoshop, export it as png and calling it a glorious day ...
MarjorieR@jwildeboer
"Elon Musk has begun rebranding Twitter as X using a new logo crowdsourced from one of his followers."
No doubt crowdsourced to avoid having to paying anyone to create a design.
And showing, again, Musk's lack of due diligence.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/07/24/elon-musk-replaces-twitter-bird-x-logo-fan/
AriSo he's trying to trademark a symbol for a half-in-the-grave platform? What's even the point there?
Rachel Breeze@jwildeboer he's clearly not a mathematician.
Steven Willems@jwildeboer that would make it mutable again ๐
Danny Goossen@jwildeboer I pointed out earlier that it clearly wasn't the same as the X.Org logo.
It now becomes clear why - X.Org had a clue.
It now becomes clear why - X.Org had a clue.
Matฤj Cepl ๐ช๐บ ๐จ๐ฟ ๐บ๐ฆ@jwildeboer https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/26140
I think it would be even better if we could possibly use ๐ as an alternative hashtag sign: ๐Twitter.
Allow ๐ (U+1D54F) as an alternative character for signaling hashtags ยท Issue #26140 ยท mastodon/mastodon
Pitch The growing popularity of the character X made even the owner of the well established brand throw away its good will and renaming his business to the plain X. Mastodon could use a little bit ...
Jiลรญ Fiala Total Landscaping
Carlo Piana ๐ผ@jwildeboer the point is not if he can register it, it's what would he control from that.
@carlopiana One of the many "plans" he has boosted about is to make ๐ the "everything app", just like WeChat in China. Your complete digital existence in one single app, controlled by a right-leaning narcissist. Isn't hat we al want? ;)
DamonHD@jwildeboer run by someone reliable, never reckless, capricious or negligent... Oh wait...
jrmExcept that they have such a limited choice in China regarding web services (social media, payment, etc.), reason why the state aproved platform is so popular, doesn't it ?
stuxโก๏ธ@jwildeboer Oh lol! good catch
thats 1-1 
Fubaroque@jwildeboer ๐คฃ ๐ฅณ ๐คญ ๐คก
vibhor ๐ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐@jwildeboer I can see him suing everyone using the unicode in future for plagiarising their trademark !
RFern@jwildeboer the logo looks like it represents "how to chop your income in half"
@jwildeboer followed as a tag and boosted. I would like to join your cult and receive your newsletter.
tom4okstate@jwildeboer this is the man wall street assures us is a business genius. He just excretes gold out of every pore.
Sabrina Web 
๐@tom4okstate @jwildeboer no. He X-cretes
Andrew Guilford@jwildeboer Iโm genuinely starting to think this is going to be like the thing with the Dogecoin logo and they'll change it back in a few days
Sasha@jwildeboer I am not an Elon fan by a very long way : does having ๐ a typable character have some marketing advantages?
NotReadyForThis@sashabilton @jwildeboer All modern OSes and browsers can render the new logo out of the box. That's certainly helpful when millions of websites and apps need to replace the bird and Musk will want that to happen as quickly as possible. If the whole UIX world needs to wait for all those icon set designers to replace the logo it could take months. Now web devs can just use the Unicode.
Since Musk cares for the new logo as much as the old logo, this way the transition at least less of a hassle.
Jeff Rueckgauer@jwildeboer I'm calling the new thing "Zed" (UK "Z"; Canadian "zero") ๐
Grumpy Grimnir 
@jwildeboer And looking forward to him complaining that browsers don't render ๐.com properly :)
Paul McGrane@jwildeboer he's really foolish, isn't he. It's almost as if he doesn't have a legal team โฆ oh right โฆ
Tony Hill@jwildeboer Given his handling of things he will use it nonetheless and then will threaten with legal prodceedings.
Rodrigo Culagovski@jwildeboer five-dimensional-chess genius strikes again.
StarkHe can't DMCA all of us!
Robert Tuck@jwildeboer
Honestly I don't see why that would be a barrier, I mean just today I noticed this:
Honestly I don't see why that would be a barrier, I mean just today I noticed this:
Rick Rae
Gatekeeper..Rocket scientist forgot to see if it was worthy of trade protection.. Any swinging dick can use it..
Vicente@jwildeboer a creative director I used to work with taught me one of the most important design lessons I know: you want to create a logo, not a font.
This is literally a font.
Joshua Vaughan@jwildeboer What about 'Powered By AI' doesn't read to you as, 'Stealing Everything We Can From The Public Domain'?
plinio@jwildeboer XOK! HA HA
RawLawDog@jwildeboer I was just thinking about this. No copyright will issue for an x like that.
Jeremy Humphrey@jwildeboer He literally just picks an existing symbol and uses it as a logo, yet he's a "genius" ๐คฆโโ๏ธ
the hatter@jwildeboer Going to be a bit of an anticlimax for you - all sorts of very standard marks are registered trademarks. You are free to use that same mark anywhere else you like, as long as it's not in a domain (industry) that will be confused with the registered one(s). You could start selling ๐ Energy Drink tomorrow, and you and musk can both have trademarks, for social media and foodstuffs. I could still sell ๐ Wireless headphones without a problem, but I couldn't make ๐ Cola.
Wayne Sebbens@jwildeboer within the last day, someone in Japan registered 1d54f.com. The site currently just displays the unicode character
Jaroslav "ลezza" ลeznรญk@jwildeboer too late, Meta already did it ๐