Why A Red ‘X’ Is The New Symbol Of Conservative Twitter

(MSN) Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey took the unusual step Wednesday of going on Sean Hannity’s radio show in an attempt to win back conservative Twitter users. On Twitter, pro-Trump Twitter users are increasingly registering their discontent with Dorsey by adding a red “X” emoji to their account names to claim they’re being “shadow-banned.”

Like the frog emoji before it — a reference to Pepe the Frog — the X has become a ubiquitous symbol in MAGA Twitter, while baffling everyone else.