I’m genuinely curious about peoples thoughts on this.
It made sense for a while. But the branding change was 16 months ago. The URI change was 3 months ago. Everybody knows now what X is. Yet for some reason, I still see in news stories today:
“… on X — formerly known as Twitter — and said …”
I really don’t think that’s needed anymore. But I’m always one to want changes as fast and painless as possible.
So what do you think would be an appropriate amount of time to keep reminding everyone that Twitter is now X?
Months?
Years?
How many?
Never. It will always be just “Twitter”.
Twitter, formerly known as X
I don’t think the platform will last long enough to care. In a year or two it’ll be “X, formely known an Twitter, currently remembered as Elon’s clusterfuck.”
im using an open source app to view calyx jabber server
edit: OHHH the name.
About six to twelve more months then people will call it X
Forever, because X looks like a placeholder and media wants to be clear so they use the name that people actually associate with that trash website. It will never just be X because it is a terrible name for a business.
Also shitter, xitter, shitler.
That dumbfuck tryin so hard is so funny though…
Is he trying to look like the letter “X”?
Yes 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
It’s like he has the concept of jumping
I never stopped calling it Twitter. X is a window manager, a letter of the alphabet, or the most algebraic variable name. It’s not a name for a company.
X also gonna give it to ya
tHe EvErYtHiNg aPp!!!11
It’s just twitter and a zoom clone right?
As long as it makes Musk mad 😂
I think it might be this. A lot of traditional media outlets are mad about twitter becoming such a necessity for them. The old guard is mad that they have to cater to this bullshit online platform. The new guard is mad at the fact that the best outlet for breaking online news is suddenly owned and operated by a fascist.
All of them want to say that x is bullshit, but they don’t want to actually lose the clicks/ market share that comes with it. So they keep passive-aggressively calling it twitter.
Drunkenly thinking about it, this is kinda like calling a trans person by their dead name. Except it’s insulting a shitty company led by a shithead, so I’m cool with it.
Especially when said shithead is fine with deadnaming people.
It will always be Twitter to me. X is a variable in a math problem… not a company name. Oh, I’m also lazy and have never used Twitter.
It’s still twitter now and always will be so it doesn’t matter.
Hopefully until the platform dies
Twitter is the only time I will ever be okay with deadnaming.
I’ll keep calling it twitter as long as musk keeps deadnaming his daughter
So you’ll call it X if he becomes a good parent?
Ha! Fat chance of that happening.
I dunno, maybe.
Which daughter, what’s the source for that?
Edit: I have now been provided with a source, thanks!
Vivian. She publicly denounced him, changed her name, and gave an interview about how horrible musk is as a father. There are many articles written about this, here is just one.
Thanks!
This might not be to anyone’s satisfaction though because it suggests he doesn’t refer to Vivian at all, considering her “dead”, not actually deadnaming her, per se.
I’m pretty sure that “x, formerly known as twitter” is the name of the company. So… forever.
Everyone collectively agreed x is stupid and I hope spite will make sure this sentiment never changes
Almost as stupid as facebook creating a platform called threads. Zero creativity, and maxium collaboration inconvience with our language usage, plus facebook trying to stick their nose in fediverse where the whole point was to get away from their centralized metaverse BS. Facebook can fuck off.