X marks the spot where the Twitter bird died. Kind of a disgusting thought.
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I wonder if Egosoft could sue Elon for the rights to the name:
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From next Tuesday, employees of Twitter will be known as the X-Men.
Elon Musk will henceforth be known as “Professor X”. Professor X is a powerful mutant, whose special power is the ability to induce confusion in those around him. Whilst in this confused state, his victims will give him large sums of money to fund improbable and madcap schemes.
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I think trademarks are tied to domains. (For example, the Beatles’ music company was called Apple, but Steve Jobs could call a computer company Apple as well.) Someone with a trademark on X in a software content could sue, perhaps, but maybe they’ll rather sell their trademark at this point.
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With the way X4 is doing right now? Yeah no, I think that possibility is very limited…
First of all, what we’re talking about here is trademark, not copyright. Big difference.
They could sue, but the outcome would be almost certainly negative. The problem about this is that it is usually done as a matter-of-course action by large companies in order to not risk losing a brand You don’t have to win the lawsuit - the mere fact that it is documented that you legally defended your trademark serves as precedent in further lawsuits. The thing about a trademark is, you can loose it if you don’t defend it.
Even If somebody clearly encroaches on your trademark, and you just let it slide, you can’t sue them anymore for it in the future. Large companies therefore make it a point of policy to regularly sue smaller brands that you can’t really argue sensibly that the trademark is in danger, because even if nothing comes out of the lawsuit, it re-establishes your hold on the trademark in case an actually serious case comes along. This is what happened between the television company Sky and Hello Games, because that was a thing before release.
Here’s the thing though: Egosoft is not a major corporation. They’re a niche company, very much comparable to HG in size, without any public investments. If you consider NMS to be an indie-game, then so is X4. They have neither the resources nor the interest to spend money on defending their trademark when it’s not really in any danger.
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So I guess what we really have is an abundant deficit in imagination. Can people come up with no better name than X? Thank you Hello Games for having some imagination.
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Way to describe the current state of the world in a nutshell! 
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And the drama continues
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A cynical person might think that Elon Musk was deliberately shovelling coal into the hype train. The only bad publicity is no publicity. I really couldn’t care two hoots about Musk or Twitter - but here I am, talking about him.
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Thanks for satisfying my curiosity
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Very true considering the best two movies out right now are a biographical account of a true story (Oppenheimer) and a story about a 60+ year old child’s toy (Barbie). Everything else is sequels and remakes of older movies.
Fun fact: Robert Oppenheimer and Barbie existed at the same time briefly, the man died 8 years after the doll was created in 1959.
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Somebody tell that to the Sky Broadcasting Company XD
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How I see it, X is a big middle finger to Meta. Elon is basically saying, “So you’re going to try and copy Twitter? Well I’ll just do a name rebrand like you did with Facebook a year ago and all the hype will move back to me.”
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Yep. I loved that photo at reddit. Colorful! Reminds me of Christmas tree light colors.
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X, the social media company formerly known as Twitter
I’m getting Prince vibes here… 
My guess about what happened: A domain speculant sat on the domain for a while, as they tend to do. OpenAI wanted to buy it from them, but they wouldn’t sell, or the asking price was too steep. Instead they struck some kind of “subscription deal” with OpenAI to reroute to chatgpt for a monthly fee.
Now Musk came along and offered more money for the “service”.
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