However, it still means that roughly 24 million users can't even try X.com at the moment. The momentary Indonesia ban isn't a major roadblock. The service has also lately tried to steer users toward $8 per month Blue subscriptions by both offering perks (such as much longer posts) and limiting existing features. In theory, you could use X for payments, messaging and other tasks that go well beyond social media. Musk announced the sudden transition as part of a broader plan to turn Twitter into a "super app" like China's WeChat. The company has even had problems changing its signage - a crew pulling down the Twitter sign in San Francisco had to stop over permit issues, leaving the "er" and old bird logo intact. X may have trouble registering and protecting trademarks, too. Meta, Microsoft and numerous other companies already own trademarks on X, opening the door to lawsuits. Still, this is another indicator of just how unplanned the Twitter-to-X transition was. ![]() This is more a formality than a major legal hurdle. Information director general Usman Kansong tells the press that X has already been in touch about the issue, and is sending a letter to indicate that Twitter is taking ownership of X.com. In other words, X didn't check to see if the the predecessors had done anything leading to national bans. Rather, it's that the web domain's previous owners broke the country's content laws. Officials don't think the site is suddenly going downhill, though. ![]() Indonesia has temporarily blocked X.com due to the country's laws forbidding gambling and porn. Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter as X is.
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