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[-] [email protected] 244 points 11 months ago

I love how everyone still calls them Facebook. It's the simple things.

[-] [email protected] 72 points 11 months ago

Nothing makes me happier than deadnaming a corporation

[-] [email protected] 37 points 11 months ago

🍗 (The Bird Formerly Known As Twitter)

[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

I dont care how long it has been or how persistent you are. It's fucking Comcast Xfinity sounds like the subtitle to a terrible Sci-fi movie from the 80s

[-] eestileib 2 points 11 months ago

"You'll always be Union Carbide to me"

[-] [email protected] 67 points 11 months ago

This highlights how deep the BS surrounding Musk has burrowed into the media scape. They invariably refer to his companies as "Elon Musks Tesla" or "Elon Musks Twitter" and so on. Where other billionaire's (for the most part) avoid the limelight and their companies stand seperate to their idiotic personal choices.

[-] [email protected] 67 points 11 months ago

I am Elon Musk's throbbing need for attention.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago

His name is X Æ A-12 Paulsen

[-] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago

“Fucker’s settin’ up franchises”

[-] [email protected] 47 points 11 months ago

I say “Elon Musk’s Twitter” like would I say “Joel Schumacher’s Batman” — to identify it as the worst version of the thing.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago

Here's his prequels

Elon Musks failed Solar City

Elon Musks failed Boring Company

Elon Musks failed Hyperloop

[-] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

Unfortunately Boring and the hyperloop were wins for him. The goal was to get cities to continue using cars.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

Boring and Hyperloop were successful, they were meant to divert local governments from pursuing viable public transportation projects.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Just a few more failures away from qualifying to be president of the USA.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago

Lol the tweet I found this article from referred to it as Meta. nah.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago

I like how you still call it a tweet. I hope tweet, tweeting and twitter remain the lexicon for X forever.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Tweet and Retweet are now Post and Repost 😭

[-] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

It's just mindboggling. I never even used Twitter and I'm annoyed about it.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

More like eXcrete, and eXhibit.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

I X'ed about it last night.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Twitter and tweeting where such well established and creative words, which set Twitter apart. I loved the analogy to birds. And Elon just throws all of that away...

[-] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

You can still toot on Mastodon at least

[-] eestileib 3 points 11 months ago

Loxodon flatulence best flatulence

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

No no, let it change. If “””X””” loses the actually marketable and popular terminology it’s all downhill from there (like, even more than now)

[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Yeah but you posted it as Facebook. You're doing good.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

the local telephone service here has seen several owners and even more name changes in the last couple decades. i still call it by the company name it had in the 90s.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Stadiums get like too.

Going to catch the game at the T-Moble Samsung SL17 this weekend?
Uhh

[-] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Just like X will never replace Twitter. That was a weird rebranding tbh. Meta at least makes some sense.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That's because Zuckerberg is actually a smart guy. He may be a prick and an asshole and possibly not human, but you really can't deny he is smart.

Musk is an immature idiot with money.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Meta lost $40 billion in Metaverse. I wouldn't call that smart. Facebook rebranding kept Facebook as a sub product of Meta. Elon should have done the same with Twitter by keeping Twitter as a product under X.

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