Musk’s New Twitter Logo Just Hit a Little Snag (Zuckerberg’s Meta Already Owns the “X” Rights?!)

Twitter debuted their new logo yesterday, but there’s already a problem…

Mark Zuckerberg‘s Meta has already registered an “X” logo in connection to

online social networking services” and “social networking services in the fields of entertainment, gaming, and application development.“

According to Business Insider, the X logo also resembles a generic Unicode character known as “mathematical double-struck capital X” that was added to the Unicode in March 2001.

(Unicode is an international computing standard in which every character or symbol has a specific numerical value that can be used across platforms.)

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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 25, 2023

The new logo is also nearly identical to the lowercase x in the Monotype font “Special Alphabet 4.”

Josh Gerben, a trademark lawyer, said a logo needed to be unique and distinctive in some way to be trademarked with the US Patent and Trademark Office.

Meta’s “X” logo in its trademark filings looks different from the one Musk put on Twitter’s website. Meta’s “X” looks like two arrows with rounded ends pointing inwards — one white and one blue — while Twitter’s “X” is a black-and-white angular rendition.

But Twitter could run into some hurdles given that it wants to use its X for social-networking purposes, similar to what was stated in Meta’s filings.

And didn’t Elon accuse Zuckerberg of Threads being similar to Twitter?
Wow! It really is true; “every Republican accusation, is a confession”…
— Danny Rafferty (DJRiffRaff) (@DJRiffRaff) July 25, 2023