socalledratesMeta, Microsoft, hundreds more own trademarks to new Twitter name
stopthatgirl7Here’s another fun one for you, too sore how much of an international mess this is.
The second largest market for Twitter is Japan. The legal entity for Twitter in Japan is “Twitter Japan.” So, seems like they’d charge it to “X Japan,” right?
Well, no. Because the trademark for X Japan is owned by a very famous Japanese rock band called X Japan. One of the founding members, Yoshiki, already tweeted in English and Japanese that the name is trademarked. Twitter Japan absolutely can not change its name to “X Japan” unless they want to be slapped with a lawsuit. So what are they going to call it? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Based on Muskrat’s other replies? Xapan.
Flying SquidBased on my previous experience with the use of X as an abbreviation, that must be short for Christapan.