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.

  • @dustyData
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    591 year ago

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

    • FuckSpez
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      I still prefer to write “Twitter” because fuck X and Musk

    • ϻеƌųʂɑ
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      71 year 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.

    • @scarabic
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      31 year 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?

  • @LEDZeppelin
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    541 year ago

    😕 🤚 X, formerly known as Twitter

    😎 👉 Xitter, pronounced as Shitter

    • peopleproblems
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      121 year ago

      Didn’t South Park call it Shitter first?

      Scary how prophetic satire is

    • @seaQueue
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      81 year ago

      I’ll call it Twatter until the day I die

  • pre
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    311 year ago

    While it still says “twitter.com” in the SSL certificate, that’s still it’s name. It is still called Twitter.

  • kubica
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    131 year ago

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

    • cyruseurosOP
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      51 year ago

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

  • Rottcodd
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    31 year ago

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

  • @CluckN
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    21 year ago

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

  • @spittingimage
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    11 year ago

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