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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I still don't get how - with such a perfect tee-up - we settled on "X, the platform formerly known as Twitter".

Besides, imagining Musks reaction to this tickles me slightly.

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[-] [email protected] 59 points 7 months ago

I still prefer to write it “xitter” pronounced as “shitter”.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I still prefer to write "Twitter" because fuck X and Musk

[-] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago
[-] medusa 8 points 7 months ago

I was taking that to be "zitter" like it's infected and probably should be seen by a professional otherwise it's going to leave a nasty mark.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

In Chinese pinyin x is a sh sound.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

You know, you may have just changed my mind

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

And there’s the issue. There are just too many good jokes to be had here.

The other half is that news organizations won’t let themselves place a joke over the appearance of objectivity, using the legally changed name of the company. The most they will do is add the parenthetical (formerly Twitter).

Journalists are wet blankets. What can you do?

[-] [email protected] 54 points 7 months ago

😕 🤚 X, formerly known as Twitter

😎 👉 Xitter, pronounced as Shitter

[-] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Didn't South Park call it Shitter first?

Scary how prophetic satire is

[-] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

I'll call it Twatter until the day I die

[-] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago

While it still says "twitter.com" in the SSL certificate, that's still it's name. It is still called Twitter.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

I'll have to think about it, meanwhile I'll keep calling twitter, twitter.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It is referencing Prince. He went by a symbol and people called him, The Artist (Formerly Known as Prince).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician)#/media/File%3APrince_logo.svg

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

The trouble with that is that it shows a certain amount of respect

[-] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

And it's owned by the X billionaire Elon Musk.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Hopefully, he'll soon be an ex-billionaire.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Honestly, I was just hoping it might help him realize how dumb X sounds to everyone else.

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

I’ve already posted this elsewhere but

[-] medusa 7 points 7 months ago

Site: Twatter. Users: Twats.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

i have a longing for the day when Twitter is bailed out because it's tOo BIg to fAiL

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I prefer "used-to-be-twitter." I think it captures the context better, and it's clunky, as it should be.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Because ex-Twitter doesn’t get the same SEO as Twitter nor X.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Why are we still talking about it? Yesterday's news, man.

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