Mr. Musk may well have effectively pushed Twitter’s new title and brand, ‘X’, and even made the self-importance domain x.com redirect to the social media web-site, but that’s not to say, the Mathematical double-struck letter will fit the invoice everywhere.
Turns out, Apple’s Application Retail outlet won’t be able to accept the new name for Twitter’s iOS app because of minimum character prerequisites.
Update, July 31 02:30 AM ET: Apple Application Keep has now revised the name of ‘Twitter’ to ‘X,’ around two days just after the publication of this piece.
Twitter even now Twitter on Application Retail store
This 7 days, both Google Play and Apple’s App Shop pushed updated variations of the Twitter application respectively for Android and iOS buyers.
The most recent application edition bears the ‘X’ symbol, and in some instances, Twitter’s new name.
BleepingComputer noticed, for case in point, that Google Perform retailer webpage for the Android app now bears the name ‘X’ not Twitter:
The app, even so, still shows up as “Twitter” among the installed apps on an Android, and the application package (APK) ID remains com.twitter.android internally:
This is in stark contrast to the most recent model of Twitter’s iOS application, which unfortunately couldn’t be renamed to ‘X’ on the Application Store—and it’s obtained to to with the minimal number of characters an iOS app title should have.
“On iOS, the circumstance is distinct as Apple does not permit any app to have a solitary character as their application identify,” knowledge scientist and Subsequent founder, Nick Sheriff pointed out.
“Twitter was capable to alter the logo of their iOS application but not the identify, since Apple demands app names to be at the very least 2 people,” mocked San Francisco-based Erik Berlin.
While iOS application names “can be up to 30 people lengthy,” they have to be at the very least 2 characters in length, failing which the app title will be rejected by Apple:
Some Apple users report seeing the ‘X’ app on their Iphone or iPad machine just after fetching the most recent update, but the name restriction continues to be in effect on the App Retail outlet.
“What about X and a house, possibly prior to or immediately after?” software developer Yusuf Alp recommended a opportunity workaround in response to Berlin’s post.
“He already has a firm termed SpaceX,” chuckled Berlin.
Twitter’s rushed and inconsistent rebranding seems to be causing issues in other areas—legal and technological, as effectively.
The app’s icon modify to ‘X’ activated protection alerts for Microsoft Edge users this 7 days, as BleepingComputer initially described.
Net articles filters in some areas, like Indonesia, also started off blocking the ‘x.com’ web site, mistaking it for adult articles.
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