For the same reason I still called Alphabet - Google, and Meta - Facebook. I refuse to let large corporations just try and shake off their shitty past with a name change.
Adding Xfinity - Comcast to this list
See also:
- Constellis Holdings, née Academi, née Xe Services, née Blackwater (mercenary group owned by right-wing politicians)
- Altria, née Philip Morris (tobacco manufacturer)
- CoreCivic, née Corrections Corporation of America (private prison operator)
- Chiquita, née United Fruit Company and Cuyamel Fruit Company (overthrew the government of Honduras, among other things)
Having fallen in love with Carmen Miranda before reading La United Fruit Company stilllll sucks.
Also add Blackwater to this list. Warcrimes and looting by American plutocratic mercenaries and now their name is not obviously pronounceable. They did an amazingly good [bad for everyone but them] rename.
Also add Blackwater to this list.
They’ve changed names so many times I guess you missed that it was already there:
- Constellis Holdings, née Academi, née Xe Services, née Blackwater
Oh. My. Fucking. God.
Is there a makemesuffer community (with more than 0 posts)? Because that’s where this belongs. Jesus Christ.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
Are you a knight who says Nee?
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Kinda shocked that the most hated company on Lemmy (Nеstlé) hasn’t tried their luck at this game yet
I guess Nestlé isn’t hated enough by the general public yet. We need to step up our game.
I so very much appreciate your use of née
Charter did the same thing with Spectrum.
I honestly think ‘X’ has more stink on it than ‘Twitter’ which is why I’ve been happy to start referring to it as ‘X’.
I don’t think continuing to call it ‘Twitter’ hurts Elon one bit.
No, but it makes us feel like we’re contributing to the conversation.
Didn’t the Alphabet rebranding happen because boomer investors were confused about which Google stock to invest in?
Theirs actually made a bit more sense. They didn’t try to actually get people to use the new name, because it was a business restructure, not a “brand” restructure.
For business management purposes, it didn’t make sense for a search engine company to do things like “own a car company”. So they split the business units up and made things a little more organized. They ran into some name issues because the most recognizable face of the company is so strongly associated with search, and they didn’t want to mess with that, so they made a new name for the top.
Companies do stuff like that all the time, but it usually doesn’t raise to public attention because it doesn’t happen to major brands, or hit the top level of the business.
They still label all their stuff Google, and their stock ticker is still googl.
Same story with Meta
Not quite. They are pushing it a little harder. You still have the Facebook website, but their branding for other things now has Meta more front and center (i.e. Oculus Quest -> Meta Quest)
Which Google stocks are there?
These are worth a fortune:
GOOG and GOOGL
don’t ask me the difference, I didn’t understand in my two minutes on Wikipedia, but I’m sure there’s an article that could explain.
That site is as dead as Reddit to me now. I don’t care whatever it’s called
Only as dead as Reddit? Reddit is still a fresh corpse while Twitter has only a few decaying bones left.
Unfortunately it still has a critical mass user base, like reddit, so still here to stay until Elon really fucks up again.
Like you can try to use Mastodon or Blue sky but all the accounts I’ve wanted to follow are just people posting a few times with zero interactions, and then going back to Twitter.
just people posting a few times with zero interactions
At least they tried. The YouTube creators I used to follow on Twitter only kept complaining about the changes on Twitter but never cared to try anything else. That was until Threads came out. It’s as if they want to live in a corporate shithole…
Corporate shitholes have the most people, which means more views, which means more money. They’re actively encouraged to stay off smaller platforms since it’s not as an effective use of their time.
The Fediverse just hasn’t hit critical mass yet.
Yeah people don’t realise what shithole these two have become
Twitter has been a shithole since it’s inception.
Reddit only became a shithole like five or six years ago.
Nah, I could follow all the artists I wanted in peace and not have deal with any of the other political doxxing stan wars crap going. Now you can’t even do that without the website breaking or pushing paid check mark chuds braindead tweet onto your feed.
I even deleted/deactivated my account months ago, and got an email notification last week that it was reactivated. Who did that? Is Elon necroing all the abandoned accounts?
I’m just sick of every article in existence calling it “X formally known as Twitter” like what’s the point, just either say X or say twitter it’s filler bullshit to extend the article.
I see that as a kind of professional fu to Elon. As in “We know we need to call it X now, but since nobody actually does that, we’ll also add the actual name”.
indeed. i like to believe he hates when we do that
It probably helps searchability, since now there is a fracture of people looking up ‘X news’ and ‘Twitter news’
“Twitter, also known by some as X”
This is the way.
Xitter is also acceptable in my book as long as pronunciation is left to the reader.
Obviously shitter
I like it that way. It’s the same as “Twitter now renamed X by a fool”.
Calling it “X” is anything but professional.
“Xitter”. It pronounces almost like “Shitter”.
No almost about it. It’s Shitter and that’s final.
This is the way.
“X” letter is pronounced as “shh” sound in China for example Liu Cixin, the Chinese author of Three Body Problem, his last name supposed to be spelled “Cishin”. So there is precedent.
I call it excrement.
That’s a shit poem.
Where’s the excrement ode!?
I also use this but I recently spelled it “Xhitter” and I think that might sell the pronunciation even better.
I’m always shocked to see Tumblr talking about current events because I forget there’s people still there
I mean gestures broadly at our own tiny userbase
Yeah but I can still see butt sex here
Hell yeah we can
Oh no it’s broken for me! I’m going to assume it was buttsex and just shake your hand now
Other hand plz
Look at mr. Lemmy talking down a way bigger service as if Lemmy is more relevant outside of their little bubble.
Yeah but we’re cooler.
It is true. We should petition the devs to add a gottem medal, and we could pay to get these meda- Wait.
But are we queerer
God knows we try, but…
Lol I never said this website is bigger
Yes but you made fun of it as if it has just a few users left
Yes. Yes I did. And it really isn’t that deep but the website I’m making that comment on isn’t really relevant to the little joke I made about Tumblr.
I started typing xxx and found new sites I enjoy more.
Lot of birds on those as well
The name is “X, formerly known as twitter”
Thats it. Thats the whole name.
The Website Formerly Known As Twitter.
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Missing an option - “I’m combining the two names into a weird abomination that no one likes but that’s what that platform deserves nowadays”
Xitter, pronounced shitter.
I’m partial to Xitter
Can you spell that phonetically
shitter
Xeet that on Xitter
I prefer Xhitter myself
How about “I just change the subject whenever that irrelevant we site is brought up”
Oh no. Imagine having to talk about twitter in a professional setting. Those poor bastards.
Why had to update all the share icons at work because of Muskrat. I argued for leaving them as the bird, but I was overridden. Nobody has fond feelings about the site anymore. Every time it is brought up everyone’s reaction is “ugh, that site…”
“Other/Results”.
Possible candidates:
- The digital dumpster fire
- The scream hole
- Rag you can doom scroll
- “You know, I don’t want to say it aloud”
- The slightly moderated version of Parlour
- Not-Reddit
- The tower of babel
and, lastly
- The town square of mental disease
“Don’t @ me bro”
I thought we agreed to call it xitter (pronounced as shitter)
My Aussie friend calls it ‘a platform from a cunt for a bunch of cunts’. I think I’ll go with that.
Are you sure they are not talking about Reddit?
You’re not wrong
Ah yeah, that one’s getting around and it’s right on point.
It is always correct to Dead Name corporations.
It’s also correct to Deadname Super Villains who think “Eggman” is somehow more intimidating than “Robotnik”
