According to the source, Musk personally confirmed that he was the one who ordered the letter to be hidden and then painted white. The publication recalls other primitive jokes of the billionaire, calling such actions “little boy-level humor.”

What happened

The newly formed name caused not only a stormy reaction. The fact is that the word “giggle” in this case was perceived as a derivative of “tits”, which means female breasts, with obscene and, as some sources put it, sexist connotation. According to Gizmodo, Musk’s fans have lauded such changes, which cannot be said for the host hosting the social network’s headquarters. San Francisco.

This is what the logo looked like twitter before painting the letters / Photo by CNBC

As Musk said, after the letter was written wrapped in a tarpThe Twitter host stated: The company is legally required to have the name “Twitter” on their signage. However, instead of a fix, the CEO simply painted over the “W” and declared it “fixed”.

“Our host at SF HQ said that legally as Twitter we must protect the signature and we can’t remove the ‘w’, so we painted it with a background color. Problem solved!” Musk wrote on his twitter.

He then added a new one to his post, which he wrote with a smiley emoji: “They tried to silence our backbiting”. This post is now deleted, but many online Screenshots.

Earlier, Musk had already joked about the word “tits”, offer to create A university called “Texas Institute of Technology and Science”, which in English sounds like Texas Institute of Technology & Science. The abbreviation for such an organization should sound like “TITS” and said musk They would have “epic products” on October 29, 2021. No educational institution with this name was established.