San Francisco has opened a complaint and launched an investigation of a giant “X” sign that cropped up Friday on top of the downtown headquarters of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter

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[–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Apparently they are still referring to it as Twitter in the update notes, and can’t change the name to X in iOS because Apple has a 2 character minimum for app names.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I guess they must count graphemes instead of bytes — "𝕩" is four bytes.

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    Why did they use an image that cropped out the subject of the article??

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    It looks pop-up Spirit Store quality what the hell

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    I bet the people who work at SpaceX and Tesla are having a really nice year, just getting on with their work unbothered while Musk is focusing all of his dumb energy on Twitter.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    City officials say replacing letters or symbols on buildings, or erecting a sign on top of one, requires a permit for design and safety reasons.

    OK but this is pretty ridiculous too

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Why? You don't want that crap to fall on people's heads.

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