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X Social Media is suing X, a social media company
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this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2023
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I like the fact that the article had to refer to the non-Musk site as XSM instead of its full name of 'X Social Media' because it would just make the article too confusing to use the proper name.
That perfectly illustrates the point.
I suppose it also means that if XSM lose the case because X is too generic, anyone can then set up a rival social media company also called X.
They can probably use the same logo too as it's just Unicode.
I'm just amazed that it turns out there's actually 2 people who think this is a good name for a social media website.
There is a good chance that there are A-W, Y and Z social media companies too. Some may be legit (eg. marketing on existing social media platforms), and others more for trademark squatting.