It’s pretty bizarre how it worked. “We’re going to replace our world famous brand, logo and ‘slowly, all the birds’, overnight with a logo someone sends me. That will work as an ‘interim logo’.” I mean , wtf is the rush?
I do not get the rush. He’s clearly not thought any of it out, which is obnoxious by how piecemeal the rollout was.
The second largest market for Twitter is Japan. The legal entity for it in Japan is Twitter Japan. So, seems like they’d charge it to X Japan, right?
Well, no. Because the trademark for X Japan is owned by the very famous over here rock band X Japan. One of the founding members, Yoshiki, already tweeted in English and Japanese that the name is trademarked. So what are they going to call it? ¯_(ツ)_/¯ That’s something so basic even a rudimentary Google search would have said the name was unavailable in the second largest market, but Elon couldn’t even be bothered to have any of the grunts still stuck working for him look into the actual logistics of using the name he’s stuck on.
The only reason I can think of that’s not Elon’s manic drug bender wearing off of the idea I’ve seen floating around that he’s trying to force through the face charge to get out of legal and contractual problems by making it so “Twitter” as a compact doesn’t exist so greed not on the hook for any payments Twitter owes. At this point, both ideas seem just as likely.
JapanX!
True, perhaps he’s trying to pass all of twitter’s assets to X, then have Twitter, Inc declare bankruptcy. It’s hard to imagine he’d have any problem with that ethically.
First of all, what assets?
Second of all, “disappearing” your assets like that will only piss off a judge and possibly land you in jail. Ask any divorce lawyer.
Third, Elon personally paid for half of Twitter. If Twitter goes away, his $20 billion goes away with it.
