Since nobody likes calling it X, why don't we call the platform "ex-twitter"? That way it's technically true, and everybody knows what you're talking about.
He deadnames his own child, and yet gets butthurt when the internet deadnames his company. I feel like just “Twitter” is the biggest insult we could collectively give to him as a person, in this context.
Playing into it and calling it X does actually reduce the effectiveness of twitter's branding. Just call it X, let people be confused, and let that kill the fun so they will just move on already.
I mean, it still is Twitter. That's the URL that people use to access the site. Tbh I have no idea if Musk actually went through the effort of changing the company name in the business licensing or other company paperwork. Just the logo and header seem to say X. But I agree, I'm getting so annoyed with journalists calling it "the site formerly known as Twitter." so dumb.
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snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world · 101 pts · 3y
How about we ghost it until it becomes irrelevant instead.
guyrocket@kbin.social · 89 pts · 3y
How about just STOP TALKING ABOUT IT.
sour@kbin.social · 10 pts · 3y
you don't need to yell
guyrocket@kbin.social · 19 pts · 3y
No need to be sour about it.
sour@kbin.social · 3 pts · 3y
no need to make fun of people's names
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 57 pts · 3y
He deadnames his own child, and yet gets butthurt when the internet deadnames his company. I feel like just “Twitter” is the biggest insult we could collectively give to him as a person, in this context.
Carighan@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y
Exactly. This. Twitter. That's it. Melon Husk doesn't get a say, he ought to be ignored completely by everyone.
Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 3y
Call it nothing and let it die
kescusay@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 3y
I've been calling it Xitter. The X is pronounced "sh."
SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 3y
I like the sass, but do people know what you’re talking about in spoken conversation?
totallynotarobot@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 3y
You think the people posting snarky shit on the internet are engaging in spoken conversation with other humans? I promise we're not.
kescusay@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Name... honestly doesn't check out.
totallynotarobot@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3y
Don't judge me and my lack of voice module.
3TH4Li4@feddit.ch · 2 pts · 3y
MyUnclesSecret@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 3y
Could just stop talking about it all together.
lwuy9v5@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 3y
I feel like it'll piss off the shitbag more if no one calls it X, so, that's what I'm going with
Pratai@lemmy.ca · 32 pts · 3y
kubok@kbin.social · 29 pts · 3y
I'll just keep referring it to as Twitter if I ever need to talk about it.
traches@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 3y
Corporations don’t get to have deadnames
Album@lemmy.ca · 29 pts · 3y
I like Xitter. Kinda like shitter if you pretend it's like a Chinese x sound
redcalcium@lemmy.institute · 10 pts · 3y
brb posting a Xeet real quick.
Philolurker@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
We have truly come full circle.
https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/04/23/le-twittre#
PissinSelfNdriveway@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 3y
Oooor how bout we just fucking stop talking about and using Twitter
phillaholic@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 3y
[I don't think about you at all meme]
Hardeehar@lemm.ee · 25 pts · 3y
I've been calling it 10
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca · 27 pts · 3y
Play it cool. Nobody's going to know you're a time traveling Roman
"Hey guys, did you see what's trending on 10?"
Hazdaz@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 3y
...or - hear me out here - we all just stop using that asswipe's platform?!?
Crazy, I know!
acutfjg@feddit.nl · 21 pts · 3y
Just call it Twitter since Elon doesn't believe in calling people by their names
KrimsonBun@lemmy.ml · 21 pts · 3y
or just not talk about it
books@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Yup.
What the fuck is the point of everyone mentions that it was "formerly twitter".
Decimit@lemm.ee · 20 pts · 3y
It’s twitter and always will be twitter until dick bag fully runs it into the ground.
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 3y
I prefer Xitter, but to make it more apparent what the pronunciation is I spell it out more phonetically as "shitter".
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 3y
I just don’t talk about the name change, pretty similar to how I’ve barely given twitter notice for the past decade
AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 3y
I mean, I just still call it Twitter. Probably will until the end of it.
Scrollone@feddit.it · 5 pts · 3y
Which hopefully comes soon
VicksVaporBBQrub@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y
Same. Out of respect for the original company's employees, founders, and devs.
Jason381@mastodon.social · -1 pts · 3y
@AphoticDev @showerthoughts @JoelJ twat
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3y
Who wouldn't know what you were talking about if you just called it Twitter?
Don't cater to the whims of billionaires. Not even a little.
ElBarto@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 3y
It's Xitter (shitter) and nothing else.
coaxil@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 3y
I've been calling it ten
zurohki@aussie.zone · 12 pts · 3y
The
artist formerly known as Princeplatform formerly known as Twitter.ganksy@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3y
Yeah I think twitter is fine. Plus it might drive the rat king out of his marbles.
YeetPics@mander.xyz · 11 pts · 3y
I'm cool with just never calling it.
LeftHandedWave@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 3y
I think we should call it "Ten".
jadegear@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 3y
Keep calling it Twitter but add @Deprecated so future users know to avoid it?
Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 3y
Playing into it and calling it X does actually reduce the effectiveness of twitter's branding. Just call it X, let people be confused, and let that kill the fun so they will just move on already.
shotgun_crab@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
Anything is fine as long as we call tweets xcrements
DoruDoLasu@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
𝕏 sounds stupid so I say it, its old brand was something it currently does not deserve
imagine being an 𝕏 user 𝕏ing on their 𝕏 and re𝕏ing other people's 𝕏es
bela@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 3y
paradx@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 3y
I think they changed it to "post"
sheilzy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3y
I mean, it still is Twitter. That's the URL that people use to access the site. Tbh I have no idea if Musk actually went through the effort of changing the company name in the business licensing or other company paperwork. Just the logo and header seem to say X. But I agree, I'm getting so annoyed with journalists calling it "the site formerly known as Twitter." so dumb.
ohlaph@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
They are probably doing it for SEO.
bela@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 3y
ohlaph@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Okay, but what about filling the page? How do we get the page FULLLLLL? Ads? Probably.
Licherally@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 3y
I call it xruth social
MeredithTheAngel@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Thats the point
Minarble@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 3y
I’m still sticking with calling it “Y”
unreachable@lemmy.my.id · 8 pts · 3y
"Y" is already taken, by something called an "existential crisis"
Minarble@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 3y
Well “existential crisis” does seem to sum it all up pretty nicely!
Maho@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 3y
$8chan.
Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 3y
If you're so keen on renaming twitter then maybe don't make fun of Elon wanting to do the same.
It's twitter. Always has been.
tabular@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
Or twitter, for short
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y
or just leave that shit hole platform and stop talking about it
marcos@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3y
Just call it X. If nobody understands what you are talking about, consider it a positive.
lorez@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 3y
Too lazy to do that.
TacoThrash3r@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 3y
I prefer "site formerly know as twitter" most
roembol@lemmy.roembol.nl · 4 pts · 3y
Twix
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
I call it: "The thing formerly known as twitter".
It's short and concise, without using the actual stupid name, meaning not advertising "The thing formerly known as twitter".
Thetomman@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
I think x works if you think of it as short for excrement
s38b35M5@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3y
Techdirt agrees with you
zephyr@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y
Or just keep it more compact: Xitter.
Pronounced with sh.
medusa@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3y
Twits for short. Just overall, forever.
Adalast@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
How about "The platform formerly known as Twitter" since the name has been changed to a nonsensical symbol instead of a meaningful word?
UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
how about TWX?... ( pronounced ..twicks)
Mcballs1234@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
rynzcycle@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y
IcecreamMelts@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y
Lil nas X should rename himself to Lil Nas Twitter
Dream_state@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 3y
TwitX
thecam@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 3y
I will still call it twitter. I hope twitter either dies or becomes a giant nostr relay.
h3mlocke@lemm.ee · -1 pts · 3y
Hush.