Taylor LorenzTwitter was able to change the logo of their iOS app but not the name, since Apple requires app names to be at least 2 characters.
They’re also still referring to the app as Twitter in the update notes (via
@sferik)
Prof West Wing Chicken Shack
the_stash
Tiago "Salvador" Souza@taylorlorenz @sferik "Ex" would do it I guess, and be appropriate! ;)
Maia Kahlke Lorentzen@taylorlorenz @sferik the farce just keeps going
indigoWhat about XXX? Just saying?
Jeff Samsonow@taylorlorenz @sferik The writers made the villain on this new season of Silicon Valley far too unbelievable.
Oran Magal@taylorlorenz @sferik The Artist Formerly Known as Twitter
Brian Litzinger@taylorlorenz @sferik the name change was so poorly planned it’s comical.
Flat Pluto Society@litzinger @taylorlorenz @sferik An overall horribly idea, poorly communicated and even more terribly executed. This might be the funniest thing that's happened since the service first started circling the drain.
just adrienne
LastElemental@litzinger @taylorlorenz @sferik that’s they key, it wasn’t planned at all. Things take time to plan, but they go fast if the owner of the company makes a decree instead
Von Xylofon
Steve Torrente@taylorlorenz @sferik Looking forward to "Ecks."
Half Cocked Law@taylorlorenz @sferik Since he's reusing old ideas that got him fired, might as well go the whole way with it.
Wreckingball4good
michel416 
@taylorlorenz @sferik How about calling it X-twitter (as in ex Twitter)?
Nick Craver@taylorlorenz @sferik How strict is the validation? Did they try <space>x?
sometimes ian
ungivishe
Stefan Plattner
Design by Adrian
Nina🐀🌻WTAF America?@taylorlorenz Xit - pronounced "Exit"
Cassandrich@ratgrrl @taylorlorenz Use pinyin interpretation of x if you prefer.
@ratgrrl @taylorlorenz xodus also pairs nicely
tomakoon@taylorlorenz @sferik You can keep the old bird icon and name, with that little trick: https://hatchee.bz/@tomakoon/110790273922408160 - You know, just to annoy #ElonMusk a bit too.
AT-AT Assault 🏳️⚧️Are Musk's engineers really incompetent enough to not name the app "X<nonprinting character>", or simply not telling him that's an option?
millionsofplayers 
@millions @taylorlorenz @sferik
Unless the app store is specifically coded to not count non-printing characters, they ARE still characters. Such as the Zero Width Space, seen between these two brackets ><. Go ahead can copy from the first bracket to the second bracket, fill it into a mastodon text field, and notice your character count go down by 3 instead of 2.
AwesumIndustrys
theurge14@taylorlorenz well as his kid can attest, the dude isn’t really good at naming things
Srinivas@taylorlorenz @sferik they also haven’t renamed Twitter movies for obvious reasons
Robert M@taylorlorenz @sferik LOL. It will take ages to get all references to #Twitter and all the birds out of their software. #ElonMusk
Gustav 🇧🇷🇮🇱
KarynDocIt's actually fascinating much LESS interested I am in clicking on the ugly, brutish X icon on my phone than the little blue bird.
Tim Richards@taylorlorenz @sferik Ugh that was the final straw for me, have just deleted X
Nic Hagan@taylorlorenz amateur hour
ˈdälfən™🐬 💥 🌊@taylorlorenz @sferik Too bad he didn’t think about such things first.
The Chaotic Good 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🖖
John Cutting@taylorlorenz
Lol. Shit show
Lol. Shit show
furina 💧⚖️@taylorlorenz Good luck to him because he’s also about to get sued the hell out of because of trademarks
potpie@taylorlorenz @sferik "Move fast! Break things! Hurt people! Destroy democracy! Frolic madly as the world burns!"
Justin BuistHe can call it X. We can call it Grimes.
Deborah Apthorp@sferik @taylorlorenz how about eX?
Matunos@taylorlorenz @sferik they fired the devs who knew where the app description strings were stored
ShueDodge@taylorlorenz I wonder what 'X' is going to do? They'll come up with something, but I just wonder what...
Rob Honeycutt
LonesomeDove
Ramón 🇨🇴@taylorlorenz is it still called Twitter Blue or now called X Blue?
RodneyPetersonTalentAgency@taylorlorenz @sferik Good thing Dickbrain is longer than one letter in case Elon wants to name his next project and app after himself.
OldTurk🗽Focus: #FreePeltier@taylorlorenz @sferik hovering over the X on the website shows it goes to twitter.com
MAQ@taylorlorenz @sferik so is the whole twitter is now "X" rebrand going to fall flat?
mesakeith@taylorlorenz @sferik Android. I only use a TWA and it still doesn't change lol. It's a bit funny because before, the browser keeps telling me "the icon was changed/updated" (for security reasons or something) but since this x thing, it never appeared again
mvarioI assume he'll be asking Xchan/4chan/8kun for suggestions.
@taylorlorenz @sferik should really be called “Twixter” now or maybe even “Trixter”
Mathias af Jochnick
Elliot Ali@taylorlorenz They could just get round that by calling it "X App" or something, couldn't they?
bernardo@taylorlorenz @sferik thanks for the news… it’s finally time to remove it from my phone/iPad.
Morgan Davis@taylorlorenz @sferik Does not seem to be accurate reporting. See screen grab from iPadOS.
undefined 🍉@morgan @taylorlorenz @sferik It seems like the App Store listing name and the installed app name have different rules, so now there’s a mismatch (Twitter on the store, X on the device)
The X app is the trusted digital town square for everyone. With X, you can: - Post content for the world to see and join public conversations - Stay up to date on breaking news - Go live with Spaces for audio or stream live video - Communicate privately with Direct Messages - Subscribe to Blue to…