Call it "the app formerly known as twitter". It's what the media does. It would piss off Elon, and it has a whole prince vibe to it.
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2024
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Elon will buy Reddit next and rename it to Xit. Pronounced like...
You're giving him too much credit. He'll probably call it “X”, as well, grabbing some other Unicode letter, but he'll keep using the reddit.com domain. Y'know, like twitter.com.
Mmh... nope, don't care, my neurons has already a "twitter" thing in memory, devoting 0 additional effort in anything related to that thing
I don't want to call it X because it's a shit shit shit name
Twitter is no worse today than five years ago. But it’s certainly also no better. The discussion about which billionaires we want manipulating public discourse is outright insanity
Twitter was always bad. It is of course way worse now, but it is silly to have any nostalgic and reverential feelings for it.
Best name to call it is to just not call it anything. Don't talk about it. Let it die.
Calling twix, or xitter! You can also call it Elon's X (he has many exes, so this one fits in)
Xerox.
Can we start calling it Bluesky?
I always call it 'X, the everything app.'
xTwitter
Shitter
Xlon’s Twitter
This isn't a shower thought
Sure was.