A Elon Musk he likes to dismantle buildings, or that’s what it seems after he decided this weekend remove the letter w from the Twitter sign at its headquarters in San Francisco, California (United States).
not satisfied with entering the building a few months ago with a sink, a few days after closing the purchase of the social network, now Musk removed the w leaving Twitter as “Titter”, in the middle of a dispute that the company has with the owner of the building where is your headquarters.
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“Our landlord at SF HQ says that we are legally required to keep the sign like Twitter and can’t remove the ‘w’, so we paint it with background color. Problem solved!” Musk explained on Twitter with a photo showing the company sign with a white space between the T and the i for “Twitter”.
The owner of the building expressed his dissatisfaction with what was done and indicated that it was a legal obligation for the company to display its full name.
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Musk, for his part, although he admitted in the trill that he covered the w in the name with paint, maintained that the name was not essentially modified as the tenant demanded. “They tried to silence our giggle” (translation of titter into Spanish), Musk wrote in another trill.
The measure taken by Musk generated a wave of criticism and ridicule on the same social network. In fact, several users warned that there is already a domain with the name Titter, which is a page dedicated to online games for children, which could generate another problem for the also owner of Tesla.
The modification of the sign; however, It did not affect the social network, which continues to have the same domain, while its isotype returned to being a bird after a week ago it changed to the icon that identifies the dogecoin cryptocurrency.
The dispute between the owner of the building and Elon Musk dates back months. In January, the landlord sued the company for almost $8 million because they did not pay the agreed amount of rent December 2022 and January 2023. The rental value was around 3.4 million dollars per month.