Mr. Musk might have efficiently pushed Twitter’s new identify and brand, ‘X’, and even made the vainness area x.com redirect to the social media web site, however that is to not say, the Mathematical double-struck letter will match the invoice all over the place.
Seems, Apple’s App Retailer cannot settle for the brand new identify for Twitter’s iOS app due to minimal character necessities.
Twitter nonetheless Twitter on iOS
This week, each Google Play and Apple’s App Retailer pushed up to date variations of the Twitter app respectively for Android and iOS customers.
The newest app model bears the ‘X’ brand, and in some circumstances, Twitter’s new identify.
BleepingComputer noticed, for instance, that Google Play retailer web page for the Android app now bears the identify ‘X’ not Twitter:
The app, nonetheless, nonetheless reveals up as “Twitter” amongst put in apps on an Android, and the software bundle (APK) ID stays com.twitter.android internally:
That is in stark distinction to the newest model of Twitter’s iOS app, which sadly could not be renamed to ‘X’ on the App Retailer—and it is obtained to to with the minimal variety of characters an iOS app identify should have.
“Twitter was capable of change the brand of their iOS app however not the identify, since Apple requires app names to be at the very least 2 characters,” mocks San Francisco-based Erik Berlin.
Whereas iOS app names “might be as much as 30 characters lengthy,” they should be at the very least 2 characters in size, failing which the app identify might be rejected by Apple:
“What about X and an area, both earlier than or after?” software program developer Yusuf Alp advised a possible workaround in response to Berlin’s publish.
“He already has an organization known as SpaceX,” chuckled Berlin.
Twitter’s rushed and inconsistent rebranding appears to be inflicting points in different areas—authorized and technical, as effectively.
The app’s icon change to ‘X’ triggered safety alerts for Microsoft Edge customers this week, as BleepingComputer first reported.
Web content material filters in some areas, like Indonesia, additionally began blocking the ‘x.com’ web site, mistaking it for grownup content material.