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Apparently Elon has a thing for the letter X. SpaceX, naming his son "X Æ A-12", and now renaming Twitter.
X.com was the startup Musk (and others) launched in 1999. It merged with another startup to create PayPal in 2000. Musk bought the X.com domain back a few years ago.
So yea, he's been obsessed with the letter X for a while. Other than SpaceX, there's also Tesla Model X.
Model X is called that because he wanted the models to spell SEXY - but Ford still owns "Model E" so he had to go with S3XY instead.
What a tool.
Who could blame the greatest minds from being entranced by a mysterious "X"?
My personal favorite X
Not risking that click 😉
PS. Is Rick-Rolling allowed here, or was that just on R?
It's X from the Mega Man X video game series.
But SpaceX at least is only short for Space Exploration Technologies Corporation
Yeah, nothing to do with a man-child giggling that it sounds like space-sex a bit.
But they don't do exploration? They just do orbit stuff
Yet
Spac Explorathun.
"Schadenfreude ist die beste Freude" :p
Facebook/Meta owns the trademark for "X" for use in social networking.
Microsoft owns the trademark for "X" for use in finance/e-commerce.
https://themessenger.com/tech/twitters-rebrand-to-x-could-be-a-trademark-nightmare-thanks-to-microsoft
Can he legally change his son's name to use the new x?
𝕏 Æ A-𝕏ii
Apparently according to Elon his wife came up with most of the name