Elon Musk: Istanbul, Not Constantinople

AFP 2:00 PM | May 17, 2024

The billionaire head of Tesla, SpaceX and other companies bought Twitter for $44 billion in late 2022 and announced the rebrand to X last July.

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Although the logo and branding were changed to "X," the domain name remained Twitter.com until Friday.

"All core systems are now on X.com," Musk wrote on X, posting an image of a logo of a white X on a blue circle.

Ed Morrissey

Meh. It'll always be Twitter to me. And get off my damned lawn, too. 

In case you don't get the headline reference, the new Republic of Turkey began insisting on the use of Istanbul not long after the end of World War I, They went so far as to reject any mail addressed to Constantinople, which hadn't been the name of the city in centuries. That inspired a pop song in the 1953 by the Four Lads, which the band They Might Be Giants covered in 1990:


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