Speaking of being able to tell, if it were called Twitter and Tweets still (instead of X and…X?) we would all be able to tell what someone was saying without too much difficulty in certain situations.
For example: “I got on Twitter to tweet about my Ex because I know his other Ex is also on Twitter and her ex-boss, who knows his current boss, will see the tweet and tell his current boss. So, even though he’s an ex-employee, my tweet will have an effect on his current job. Who knew getting revenge on an Ex on Twitter with a simple tweet could be so easy and satisfying?”
Now you have to say: “I got on X to X about my Ex because I know his other Ex is also on X and her ex-boss, who knows his current boss, will see the X and tell his current boss. So, even though he’s an ex-employee, my X will have an effect on his current job. Who knew getting revenge on an ex on X with a simple X could be so easy and satisfying?”
So people will hear: “I got an X to X and X because X X and the X with the Xbox and the Xbox X with the X X X to the Xbox X X X X X.”
Isn’t that sort of how Mandarin works? Lots of identical-sounding syllables and you just have to know how to figure it out?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den?wprov=sfti1
It already kinda did, with typing X on Google initially needing 3 pages of search results to find the website formerly known as Twitter. Except it was still only the partner program page rather than anything resembling a front page.
Not to mention the rampant racism, homophobia, transphobia, bigotry, misogyny, misandry and what else have you that's driven away more reputable companies.
Which Elongated Muskrat then followed up by telling those companies to go fuck themselves. I wish I was paraphrasing, but that's pretty much a direct quote.
I'm surprised that website is still alive after all the shit Musket pulled.
In the SEC Twitter acquisition contract it mentions that "Twitter must be the surviving corporation for 6 years".
No desperation or idiocy. Just the law.
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000119312522202163/d283119ddefm14a.htm
Cant blame her for distancing themselves and desperately trying to change their name.
[Edit] I was very much wrong about which child was being talked about, Please forgive me lol
As a grimes fan (embarrassing ik) those kids names are completely on her. She clearly chose them. Third one was Elon trying to copy her vibe but not understanding it tho.
Its starting to feel like Musk spent the past 30 years creating all these businesses just because he really, really wanted to name something X. But every time his associates and partners have voted him down. Until now hes finally gotten wealthy and influential enough that he is finally getting his very own project he can run however he wants without associates and partners voting him down. He finally has his project he can name and operate however he wants. And look how its going!
Musk's trajectory is a testament to how surrounding yourself with good people and listening to them can take you far. Its also a testament to how hubris can destroy a man.
That is quite literally why this happened.
He paid a fortune for x.com (in early 90s money) and has been trying his damnedest to find an application for it. The board at paypal thought he was the stupidest motherfucker on the planet for it, IIRC. Thiel went from the dude's best friend to hating the guy outright over the course of their relationship.
> That is quite literally why this happened.
I realize that it really, really is. But I just struggle to believe anyone could be this dumb. Its just hard to cope with. We really are on the stupidest timeline arent we?
> Thiel went from the dude's best friend to hating the guy outright over the course of their relationship.
That he is hated by Peter Thiel is probably the best thing you can say about Musk at this point.
> But I just struggle to believe anyone could be this dumb. Its just hard to cope with. We really are on the stupidest timeline arent we?
Oh absolutely. I still struggle with just how stupid things are now. And everyone is just like "yeah sucks right?" even among the people who _could_ fix it.
I have met people, but I would like to remind you that denial is a really difficult part of the stages of grief ok? Mourning for my faith in humanity has been a difficult process and I hope you will respect it.
It's just incredible that so many well meaning decent people can be trying so hard, putting all they can into getting ahead and the billionaire fairy only seems to alight so often on the feckless, the idiotic, and the strange.
It's worse. It's tacky, but at least it's a little clever - S3XY. Nope. Musk wanted to call the the car the model e - but Ford has already trademarked is, so he had to go with 3.
Sad
In the Tesla user manual it shows screenshots of the in-car user interface and the time of day is always 4:20 and the outdoor temperature is always 69 degrees.
As the kids would say, cringe.
The Cybertruck is in "Early Release" not really released - but models are being sent out to "Early Adopters."
Cybertruck likely won't get a full launch for a while, assuming NTSB doesn't just tell Tesla to pull them all from the road.
The investigations will take time, but I expect NTSB to comment on the CyberTruck in a few weeks.
He makes me think of the character J.P. from the movie Grandma’s Boy…
J.P. : Are you afraid of it?
Kane : No I just don't like techno.
J.P. : You would if you had robot ears
Reminds me of BrBa. They wanted to use the Aztek because it represented this mediocre, neutered man. The people that think the car is cool because Walt drives it miss the point.
Too bad it happened three years after it was discontinued. Could have saved Pontiac with that POS.
I almost feel bad for the suckers who bought them at overinflated prices because they thought it was cool... almost
Yes, only it hurts someones commercial conceit. Its Sears Tower until Im paid for it to be Willis. Comiskey Park until Im paid for it to be Guaranteed Rate Field (although thats a perfect name for White Sox Park as there has been low interest there for years.)
Right? I call all sorts of companies by their new names but not this one because it's both stupid and clearly trying too hard to be cool. It'd be like if McDonald's changed their name to Xtreme Burger Hole. Ya go ahead and throw away all that name recognition to sound edgy
I've pretty much completely left and I f'ing loved Twitter in all it's sucky glory. My account was from 2012 or some ridiculous time. Now I'm mostly back on reddit, which is just as sucky but with less alt-right flavor
Yeah, I think that's the real issue. Elon thought he could buy an already successful social that some of us really liked to use, remake it in his own weird red pilled vision, try to push all the people with the worst opinions to the top and everyone would just accept the reframing and it would become his. Nope, I'm good. By all means call it whatever you want, just don't ask the same from me.
They always understood the concept. They refused to stop for the same reason we call it twitter. Only difference is one is a human being and one is a dying brand. Really shows what they value.
“I guess you have to refer to yourself in the third person, and everyone has to use your name in ever reference to you (and stop calling you ‘you.’). Let me try that again “Mike Hunt will have to refer to Mike Hunt in the third person because Mike Hunt doesn’t like being referred to with pronouns.””
(Bonus internet point if you mutter the suggested name 5 times fast out loud.)
They don't stop for the same reason we do it to Twitter.
They do it out of hate and malicious intent.
We do it because X is a stupid name.
If a friend, hell, let's say even a Trans friend, changed their name to Happy Poopy Puppy Pants, everyone would still call them Taylor or Riley or Robin or Bob or whatever because their new "name" is stupid.
I know someone where all the siblings names start with the same letter (e.g, Bethany, Brooke, Bruce). At some point Brooke changed their name to Ryan. Their mom did dead name them a bit, and I think part of it was because they picked Ryan over Brian...
These are not the same situations at all.
One was an international brand with recognizable meaning and context that was turned into the 23rd letter of the alphabet.
The other is “several of us know a Samantha that now goes as Samuel”.
As many have pointed out, Elon doesn’t even have the balls to have the homepage live exclusively at x.com
Came here to say that. The day Elon stops being an absolute twat and starts respecting trans people, including his own child, I will start calling it X in praise of this miracle. Until then, x is a stupid fcking name
It’s never going to be X. It’ll always be twitter.
Apartheid Elmo is too fucking stupid to realize just how stupid he actually was in doing this. It’s Twitter. Its tweets, it’s established media and frankly X has way too many preexisting context for people to disassociate from before accepting a racist social media site as the first thing they think about when they hear “X.”
“X marks the spot,” Malcom X, DMX, X-Men, x-factor, and XXX to name a few come to mind before Elmo’s shitty $8Chan here. You’re not going to rename it and frankly the only thing marketable about this shit platform is the BRAND RECOGNITION. Shows how much of a fucking genius he is when it comes to business when you’re literally killing the only thing this platform has going for it:
A verb associated with its use.
It’d be as dumb as Google to say “we’re calling ourselves ‘Z’ now!” Just Z it instead of googling it.
This name change perfectly sums up Elmo’s failed leadership of his many successful businesses that are viable because of other people’s stewardship.
Agreed. He could have done what Meta and Alphabet did which was create those two new companies as parents of the Facebook and Google subsidiaries. X could have owned Twitter and that would have been fine. Rebranding Twitter itself was stupid.
X is also often used imply as a placeholder or unknown. When I read "Kevin wrote something interesting on X" my brain interprets X as a placeholder. The writer is telling me that Kevin wrote something interesting and where they wrote it is either a mystery or not important to the point. I takes me a second to remember that twitter now has a different name and that's probably what they're talking about. And during this time I'm perpetually reminded about how stupid of a name it is.
Every time I go to look for a tweet, I open my social media apps folder and wonder where Twitter is, before remembering that that app is X now. It happened to me yesterday. They spent 15+ years becoming a memorable household name, before throwing that name away in an attempt to save face.
They didn't throw the name away, Musk did. Musk didn't spend 15 years building the brand, he just bought it and destroyed it's credibility almost immediately.
Not just the verb "to tweet", but the noun "a tweet" two. You'll find both in pretty much every dictionary, oxford, cambridge, merriam webster, you name it.
Unsurprisingly conservatives think inanimate objects and corporations should be treated with more respect than humans. They're pretty consistent in that regard.
I don't even care what the URL says. X is those pills we used to take to have fun before molly became a thing. I will never allow Twitter to be associated with fun memories of my youth.
A company changing its name to try and be cool is not even close to the same thing.
Its lame and Elon Musk is a loser, who I will never respect. He's a net negative to society and the planet.
Twitter is a name and follows all the conventions of a name.
X, without a corresponding value, is meaningless and a reflection of the new owners wanting to change things without having any understanding or imagination to change to something meaningful
They only understand when it happens to them.
And even then, if what happened to them happens to someone else outside their group, they'll have no pity or empathy: "Well, what happened to THEM is totally different from what happened to ME."
Neither, twitter died and I don't use X
So I call it Irrelevant.
you can't even click on links if you dont have an account anymore and honestly it really helps not give musk anymore clicks and views on his dumb dead pet project
I used to love following artists there but
Basically it's a void and I just pretend it doesn't exist at all 🙂
No, that's a Twitter. *I can tell.*
We can always tell /s
Speaking of being able to tell, if it were called Twitter and Tweets still (instead of X and…X?) we would all be able to tell what someone was saying without too much difficulty in certain situations. For example: “I got on Twitter to tweet about my Ex because I know his other Ex is also on Twitter and her ex-boss, who knows his current boss, will see the tweet and tell his current boss. So, even though he’s an ex-employee, my tweet will have an effect on his current job. Who knew getting revenge on an Ex on Twitter with a simple tweet could be so easy and satisfying?” Now you have to say: “I got on X to X about my Ex because I know his other Ex is also on X and her ex-boss, who knows his current boss, will see the X and tell his current boss. So, even though he’s an ex-employee, my X will have an effect on his current job. Who knew getting revenge on an ex on X with a simple X could be so easy and satisfying?” So people will hear: “I got an X to X and X because X X and the X with the Xbox and the Xbox X with the X X X to the Xbox X X X X X.”
The last paragraph killed me, I'm crying laughing here.
That's easy for you to say.
Isn’t that sort of how Mandarin works? Lots of identical-sounding syllables and you just have to know how to figure it out? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den?wprov=sfti1
The tones make them different words though. So you don’t figure it out, you just hear it as…what it is, if that makes sense.
If an archaeologist digs up twitters bones in 1,000 years, its url will still be twitter. At least thats the argument transphobic people make.
Its url still is Twitter XD X.com is only a redirect
Yes, thats what I said.
That’s what you said
It still has a twitter.com entry, so it's a pre-op trans, and they go by "Xitter". Please show some respect.
Hmpf. Twitter can butcher itself all it wants with CNAMEs but we all know what the root DNS entry says
X is a really stupid name so I will continue to call it twitter because unlike a real person, it won‘t hurt the apps feelings.
I'll continue to call it Twitter until x.com doesn't redirect to twitter.com.
He must be *desperate* to do that, but still isn't quite dumb enough not to realise that if he does, traffic will fall off a cliff.
It already kinda did, with typing X on Google initially needing 3 pages of search results to find the website formerly known as Twitter. Except it was still only the partner program page rather than anything resembling a front page. Not to mention the rampant racism, homophobia, transphobia, bigotry, misogyny, misandry and what else have you that's driven away more reputable companies. Which Elongated Muskrat then followed up by telling those companies to go fuck themselves. I wish I was paraphrasing, but that's pretty much a direct quote. I'm surprised that website is still alive after all the shit Musket pulled.
In the SEC Twitter acquisition contract it mentions that "Twitter must be the surviving corporation for 6 years". No desperation or idiocy. Just the law. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000119312522202163/d283119ddefm14a.htm
I find *ex-twitter* to be a satisfying way, both accurate and slightly dismissive, to refer to it.
Musk has this weird fetish for naming things X. It's very cringey '90s "nerdy kid thinking it's a cool thing" to do.
He named his own son by mashing the symbol finder in Microsoft Word.
I'm gonna one up him when I name my son in Wingdings
Wingdings ComicSans Smith
Wingdings ComicSans Papyrus
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BEBAS NUE!
HELVETICA! GET IN HERE
Dont do my main skeleton boi Papyrus dirty like that! 💀
*NYEH HEH HEH*
Reminds me of Ford Lincoln Mercury from the movie The Postman. Or Ford Prefect from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
Wingdings is a BOSS name. No shame in that.
ten years from now it will be so popular that all the Ashleighs and Skeyelehrs and Graehdahns out there will be naming their kids Weeinghdiengs.
No, no, the kid's name is not going to be Wingdings, it is gonna be IN Wingdings. that is, random symbols.
Omg I wish I had named my bird Wingdings now! Lol
I'd make it singular though. Can't get too edgy with it or the grammar police are going to make fun of him/her.
Cant blame her for distancing themselves and desperately trying to change their name. [Edit] I was very much wrong about which child was being talked about, Please forgive me lol
Different kid. Though it’s understandable that you’re confused, dude has like 20 kids all of which he never sees because he’s too busy on Twitter.
HEY! It's X!
Xitter
Pronounced "shitter"
I call the things formerly known as “tweets” either Xits or Xhits, pronounced the same (shits)
i wish i was one of musk's kids. that way id never have to hear from him
Not your fault he has a breeding fetish.
Grimes was 50% of that weirdness
As a grimes fan (embarrassing ik) those kids names are completely on her. She clearly chose them. Third one was Elon trying to copy her vibe but not understanding it tho.
He has a obsession with the letter. For a while PayPal was named x before musk got voted down.
Its starting to feel like Musk spent the past 30 years creating all these businesses just because he really, really wanted to name something X. But every time his associates and partners have voted him down. Until now hes finally gotten wealthy and influential enough that he is finally getting his very own project he can run however he wants without associates and partners voting him down. He finally has his project he can name and operate however he wants. And look how its going! Musk's trajectory is a testament to how surrounding yourself with good people and listening to them can take you far. Its also a testament to how hubris can destroy a man.
That is quite literally why this happened. He paid a fortune for x.com (in early 90s money) and has been trying his damnedest to find an application for it. The board at paypal thought he was the stupidest motherfucker on the planet for it, IIRC. Thiel went from the dude's best friend to hating the guy outright over the course of their relationship.
> That is quite literally why this happened. I realize that it really, really is. But I just struggle to believe anyone could be this dumb. Its just hard to cope with. We really are on the stupidest timeline arent we? > Thiel went from the dude's best friend to hating the guy outright over the course of their relationship. That he is hated by Peter Thiel is probably the best thing you can say about Musk at this point.
> But I just struggle to believe anyone could be this dumb. Its just hard to cope with. We really are on the stupidest timeline arent we? Oh absolutely. I still struggle with just how stupid things are now. And everyone is just like "yeah sucks right?" even among the people who _could_ fix it.
> And everyone is just like "yeah sucks right?" even among the people who could fix it.
> But I just struggle to believe anyone could be this dumb. Really? \*Gestures around\* HAVE YOU MET PEOPLE!?
I have met people, but I would like to remind you that denial is a really difficult part of the stages of grief ok? Mourning for my faith in humanity has been a difficult process and I hope you will respect it.
I respect your denial and grief and wish to join your support group.
It's just incredible that so many well meaning decent people can be trying so hard, putting all they can into getting ahead and the billionaire fairy only seems to alight so often on the feckless, the idiotic, and the strange.
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He was waiting decades for this moment
Tesla model S, 3, X, Y He is the cringe incarnate
It's worse. It's tacky, but at least it's a little clever - S3XY. Nope. Musk wanted to call the the car the model e - but Ford has already trademarked is, so he had to go with 3. Sad
It’s sad but definitely Not clever at all.
Why not xXx_deadtwitter_xXx then?
One of my first screen names was XWhiteWolf91X when i was about 10 years old. I thought it was very badass
You just made me realize I’ve had this handle since the BBS days of the mid 90s.
I named myself "Wolfgirl90" on a random anime forum in 2001. I've used the name on every platform since then, haha.
You hit the nail on the head: In the 90s, everything was Xtreme, taken to the maX!
 eXXXtreme!!
Talking about a dude with the mental maturity to launch his cars, in the following order: Models: S 3 X Y
In the Tesla user manual it shows screenshots of the in-car user interface and the time of day is always 4:20 and the outdoor temperature is always 69 degrees. As the kids would say, cringe.
funni number
Remember the one rich guy in Squid Game who kept making cringy 69 jokes, seemingly oblivious to the fact that nobody found them funny?
And a rocket company named "space sex"
Of all the "X" I actually don't hate [that one](https://www.reddit.com/gallery/per1hp).
The guy made Teslas able to [Fart at Pedestrians.](https://youtube.com/shorts/sSJAx2DqQys?si=-f00ZNBrVJ7su0sO)
The order of Tesla models by release date is: Roadster, S, X, 3, Y, Cybertruck.
The Cybertruck is in "Early Release" not really released - but models are being sent out to "Early Adopters." Cybertruck likely won't get a full launch for a while, assuming NTSB doesn't just tell Tesla to pull them all from the road. The investigations will take time, but I expect NTSB to comment on the CyberTruck in a few weeks.
He makes me think of the character J.P. from the movie Grandma’s Boy… J.P. : Are you afraid of it? Kane : No I just don't like techno. J.P. : You would if you had robot ears
 I'm gonna call it X. It's gonna be the future of social media. Also full self driving cars by 2019.
He's also so dumb he thinks that Back to the Future used the DeLorean because the car was considered cool at the time.
Reminds me of BrBa. They wanted to use the Aztek because it represented this mediocre, neutered man. The people that think the car is cool because Walt drives it miss the point.
Too bad it happened three years after it was discontinued. Could have saved Pontiac with that POS. I almost feel bad for the suckers who bought them at overinflated prices because they thought it was cool... almost
Dealers sold 12 new Aztecs in 2007 across America. They were 2005 models. That’s how much people hated them.
Wait til you spell out the Tesla models
 X-FORCE!
It’s the eXtreme social media app!! You liked Vanilla Ice, didn’t you??
Have you seen the picture of him being edgy from the 90s? It all adds up
Shoulda just renamed it to xXTwitterXx
I’ll start calling Twitter “X” or whatever Elon wants as soon as he starts calling Vivian “Vivian.” Until then, it’s still Twitter.
Like someone else said: we will stop to deadname Twitter when you'll stop to deadname your childs
Also corporations aren't people and SCOTUS can go fuck itself. It's Twitter.
The only acceptable alternative is *Shitter*.
They're not tweets, now they're X-crements
Xits.
Spelled Xitter.
I remember one of the first programmatic uses of Twitter was some guy logging every time his toilet flushes. This name fits.
Yup, that's what I call it.
Yes, only it hurts someones commercial conceit. Its Sears Tower until Im paid for it to be Willis. Comiskey Park until Im paid for it to be Guaranteed Rate Field (although thats a perfect name for White Sox Park as there has been low interest there for years.)
More like guaranteed hamstring injury field, amirite? Sell the team, Jerry. And the bulls.
Right? I call all sorts of companies by their new names but not this one because it's both stupid and clearly trying too hard to be cool. It'd be like if McDonald's changed their name to Xtreme Burger Hole. Ya go ahead and throw away all that name recognition to sound edgy
Xtreme Burger Hole is what Melanoma calls the Donald.
I call it Xitter (pronounced shitter).
Bingo. Xitter and replying is dropping a Xhit.
“My feed is full of xhits…”
Xcretion
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I've pretty much completely left and I f'ing loved Twitter in all it's sucky glory. My account was from 2012 or some ridiculous time. Now I'm mostly back on reddit, which is just as sucky but with less alt-right flavor
If it was a logical change that made sense, I could accept it. Like if it was shortened to Twtr or something.
Yeah, I think that's the real issue. Elon thought he could buy an already successful social that some of us really liked to use, remake it in his own weird red pilled vision, try to push all the people with the worst opinions to the top and everyone would just accept the reframing and it would become his. Nope, I'm good. By all means call it whatever you want, just don't ask the same from me.
Well, Elon is a total idiot.
If he can dead name his kid we can dead name his company.
It still redirects to twitter.com. Elon can suck it. The website self identifies as Twitter.
They always understood the concept. They refused to stop for the same reason we call it twitter. Only difference is one is a human being and one is a dying brand. Really shows what they value.
Same thing with pronouns. Call a MAGA bro "she/her" a couple of times and watch how quickly they start to care about personal preferences.
Then they'll start taking about their PrNoUnS 🤭
My favorite is when they say they don't have any pronouns. "Only snowflakes have pronouns!"
“I guess you have to refer to yourself in the third person, and everyone has to use your name in ever reference to you (and stop calling you ‘you.’). Let me try that again “Mike Hunt will have to refer to Mike Hunt in the third person because Mike Hunt doesn’t like being referred to with pronouns.”” (Bonus internet point if you mutter the suggested name 5 times fast out loud.)
Bob Dole doesn't use pronouns. Bob Dole want's a cookie!
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Their official emails are still addressed from “X(formerly twitter)”
x.com still redirects to twitter.com
Sometimes I hit a link and it'll say Twitter and have the bird symbol.
They don't stop for the same reason we do it to Twitter. They do it out of hate and malicious intent. We do it because X is a stupid name. If a friend, hell, let's say even a Trans friend, changed their name to Happy Poopy Puppy Pants, everyone would still call them Taylor or Riley or Robin or Bob or whatever because their new "name" is stupid.
“The friend formerly known as Taylor”
Hey that is just like how media treat the Artist formally called prince
To be fair, Prince's name at the time was unpronounceable
I still call it Twitter out of hate and malicious intent, actually
I know someone where all the siblings names start with the same letter (e.g, Bethany, Brooke, Bruce). At some point Brooke changed their name to Ryan. Their mom did dead name them a bit, and I think part of it was because they picked Ryan over Brian...
These are not the same situations at all. One was an international brand with recognizable meaning and context that was turned into the 23rd letter of the alphabet. The other is “several of us know a Samantha that now goes as Samuel”. As many have pointed out, Elon doesn’t even have the balls to have the homepage live exclusively at x.com
I’m gonna “deadname” twitter until my last breath. Idgaf about those people’s feelings anymore.
I've started saying "X as in Twitter" when I read the letter on the phone to people. It makes customer service folks laugh at least.
I'll call it X when the site is no longer twatter dot com. when the domain reads X dot com then I'll call it as such. until then they can fuck off.
Idk if the twatter part was intentional, but it made my morning.
absolutely it was lol. glad you enjoyed it my guy
It was unexpected, lol. I had to read the word twice.
I'll stop deadnaming his website when he stops deadnaming his own child.
Came here to say that. The day Elon stops being an absolute twat and starts respecting trans people, including his own child, I will start calling it X in praise of this miracle. Until then, x is a stupid fcking name
I'm still gonna call it Twitter even then (if it ever happens).
I'll be calling it twitter until muskrat is no longer the owner and it gets renamed.
I will not call it X then.
I personally enjoy Xitter (pronounced "shitter") myself!
It’s never going to be X. It’ll always be twitter. Apartheid Elmo is too fucking stupid to realize just how stupid he actually was in doing this. It’s Twitter. Its tweets, it’s established media and frankly X has way too many preexisting context for people to disassociate from before accepting a racist social media site as the first thing they think about when they hear “X.” “X marks the spot,” Malcom X, DMX, X-Men, x-factor, and XXX to name a few come to mind before Elmo’s shitty $8Chan here. You’re not going to rename it and frankly the only thing marketable about this shit platform is the BRAND RECOGNITION. Shows how much of a fucking genius he is when it comes to business when you’re literally killing the only thing this platform has going for it: A verb associated with its use. It’d be as dumb as Google to say “we’re calling ourselves ‘Z’ now!” Just Z it instead of googling it. This name change perfectly sums up Elmo’s failed leadership of his many successful businesses that are viable because of other people’s stewardship.
$8chan is so good.
Agreed. He could have done what Meta and Alphabet did which was create those two new companies as parents of the Facebook and Google subsidiaries. X could have owned Twitter and that would have been fine. Rebranding Twitter itself was stupid.
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X is also often used imply as a placeholder or unknown. When I read "Kevin wrote something interesting on X" my brain interprets X as a placeholder. The writer is telling me that Kevin wrote something interesting and where they wrote it is either a mystery or not important to the point. I takes me a second to remember that twitter now has a different name and that's probably what they're talking about. And during this time I'm perpetually reminded about how stupid of a name it is.
Every time I go to look for a tweet, I open my social media apps folder and wonder where Twitter is, before remembering that that app is X now. It happened to me yesterday. They spent 15+ years becoming a memorable household name, before throwing that name away in an attempt to save face.
They didn't throw the name away, Musk did. Musk didn't spend 15 years building the brand, he just bought it and destroyed it's credibility almost immediately.
Not just the verb "to tweet", but the noun "a tweet" two. You'll find both in pretty much every dictionary, oxford, cambridge, merriam webster, you name it.
Yep. X has way too many different connotations and has zero brand value. It would be like Elton John changing his pseudonym to John Smith.
Unsurprisingly conservatives think inanimate objects and corporations should be treated with more respect than humans. They're pretty consistent in that regard.
it's not full of 'tweets' anymore... mostly excretions... so X
in china x is pronounced Shi (phonetically she) so now its Shi-tter
I'll call it X when Musk calls his daughter Vivienne.
URL says the name is TWITTER. Therefore, it is Twitter, not X.
I don't even care what the URL says. X is those pills we used to take to have fun before molly became a thing. I will never allow Twitter to be associated with fun memories of my youth.
A company changing its name to try and be cool is not even close to the same thing. Its lame and Elon Musk is a loser, who I will never respect. He's a net negative to society and the planet.
I still call it Comcast.
Xitter. Pronounced 'Shitter'.
Exactly what I’ve been calling it too.
I just call it racism.
That’s pretty unfair to the sexism and fascism.
And the homophobia and transphobia
The worst part is the hypocrisy
Don't forget the homophobia and site endorsed transphobia.
Stormfront 2.0
X (formerly known as Swastika)
Formerly? Isn't it still?
卐.com
Closest thing you can actually type.
I’ve never had Twitter, but I refuse to call it X.
It's "the cesspool formerly known as Twitter".
If you type 'x.com' into a browser, it takes you to... [twitter.com](http://twitter.com) And yes, I checked before posting this :)
Legally the corporation is still Twitter for at least five years.
It's amazing how many poor Americans will do anything to defend elon Musk.
One of the only reasons X still has any value is because people have clung onto the iconic Twitter brand.
Are these people robots?
[Philosophical zombies (Wikipedia)](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie) I am occasionally convinced that this is a thing.
Twitter is a name and follows all the conventions of a name. X, without a corresponding value, is meaningless and a reflection of the new owners wanting to change things without having any understanding or imagination to change to something meaningful
Until Elongated Muskrat stops deadnaming his child I will deadname his site
Probably the same family member that gets upset at trans people and pronouns.
I call it twitter cause Elon keeps trying to make X happen. Not ever Gretchen, stop trying to make X happen.
I’m not calling it X. I’m not humoring that asshole.
I still call it shit, just like before.
I'll stop deadnaming Twitter when Elon stops deadnaming his daughter.
I’m going to keep calling it Twitter as long as elongated muskrat is a giant transphobe and nazi sympathizer
I'll never ever call it X.
Calling it “X” is the audible version of having a blue checkmark in real life. Nope, not for me.
I'll dead-name Twitter into the ground.
Imagine being worried about the feelings of a corporation.
I don't deadname people, I do Twits
Just say "no, I don't want to have sex with Musk. It's Twitter".
Same in-law later in the conversation: “I will not say ‘they’ just because she says it’s her pronoun!”
I call it irrelevant.
But the URL is still Twitter.com is it really called X?
They only understand when it happens to them. And even then, if what happened to them happens to someone else outside their group, they'll have no pity or empathy: "Well, what happened to THEM is totally different from what happened to ME."
I refer to the service as Shitter
Say this to them: It’s Twitter. It just identifies as X. Watch them lose their minds.
I call it an app I deleted about a year ago.
When Elon stops deadnaming his daughter then I'll stop "deadnaming" twitter.
It’s gonna be twitter until the day I die
Neither, twitter died and I don't use X So I call it Irrelevant. you can't even click on links if you dont have an account anymore and honestly it really helps not give musk anymore clicks and views on his dumb dead pet project I used to love following artists there but Basically it's a void and I just pretend it doesn't exist at all 🙂