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Twitter is now X as the little blue bird disappears (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[+] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

I mean, how many ways can you style an X?

Maybe they need a new mascot now that the bird is gone. How about a hamster? They could call it Xhamster.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It symbolizes the wider breadth of the project, you'll run everything through it just like a windowing system

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

it's also almost exactly this mathematical symbol: 𝕏

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_bold