10 mo. ago • 90%

Can't we just start calling it "Formerly Twitter" instead?

Pretty much the title. I think you all know what I'm talking about.

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I still call it Twitter, because that's what it is.

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- When he stops deadnaming his daughter, maybe I'll start to care about his attempted rebrand of Twitter
  
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- This is the only sane response.
  
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- I still call Meta Facebook and alphabet Google... No one is confused, it's only ambiguous if you start getting into logistics about business units
  
  Twitter didn't even reorganize, they just changed their name to something it feels dumb to say. It's actually less ambiguous to call it Twitter, because X is a confusing trademark
  
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  Facebook is still Facebook and Google is still Google, though.
  
  Musk didn’t create a parent company called X to manage the Twitter platform, he renamed the entire platform.
  
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As a trans person, I like to remind everyone you are not just allowed but encouraged to deadname Twitter

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- Calling it deadnaming implies Twitter chose the name X. Twitter did not make that decision, thus calling Twitter Twitter is in no danger of offending Twitter.
  
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- Going to deadname Twitter as long as musk is deadnaming his daughter
  
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  Oohhh that’s a good one.
  
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- ...what the heck is "deadnaming"?
  
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  Using a trans persons's birth name rather than their preferred name. If done purposefully, it's extremely insulting.
  
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- Ooh. Excellent point. I will be disrespectfully deadnaming Twitter from now on.
  
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- As a cisgender person I'm so sorry for the shit other cisgender write on Twitter
  
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  The fuck? You don’t have to be sorry for what other people do. That’s other people.
  
  What’s with all this carrying blame for shit other people have done just because you share an uncontrollable trait with them?
  
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  Your virtue signal is a little bright. You should adjust the wattage.
  
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- Isn't that hypocritical?
  
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  Only if you think corporate branding is equal to personal identification.
  
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We should stop calling it.

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I still call it Twitter.

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- And Meta will always be Facebook
  
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  I always call it FaceBook Inc. It's absurd that that shit has always gone right past everyones observation. Prolly still clicking because upon seeing it you're ass will do the denial your damn self instead of reading it upside down: zero responsibility for maintenance of spying products handle when a corporation is doing the gig and not the gorramn government.
  
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- I never liked Twitter that much to begin with, but it’s definitely not the same thing as it used to be. I’m fine with calling it X instead of Twitter because of that. X is a stupid name for a stupid social media platform. It’s fitting. It’s definitely not Twitter anymore, which ever way you want to look at it.
  
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Just do what The Register does

Twitter, the social media service now calling itself X,

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- Respect, but... No.
  
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Xitter. Pronounced shitter.

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- Does that make tweets xeets, pronounced shits?
  
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  Yes, yes it does. You xit xeets on the xitter.
  
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  How's "Xcrement"?
  
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- Fucking brilliant.
  
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  This has been the most common name used for months now.
  
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Xitter

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- Pronounced "shitter"
  
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  Tweets are Xcrements
  
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  The only acceptable answer
  
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- And tweets are xits
  
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It's much easier to simply keep calling it Twitter. Further syllables add nothing.

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Or we can call it by the past tense "Twat".

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- good one
  
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Or you could call it what Linus on Wan show by Linus Tech Tips YT channel made up: ex-Twitter You essentially say both of the names and the fact that Twitter is the "old name". But as a F-u to Musk, we should just call it Twitter.

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- I prefer xitter
  
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  Is my brain meant to pronounce this as Shitter?
  
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  Whatever floats your boat! There are multiple ways of calling it and I've just pointed out the one I find the funniest. What we can all agree on is that renaming Twitter was a bad idea. (and everything else he did also)
  
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Just call it Shitter, because that's what it is.

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- Spelled "Xitter"
  
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Just use the URL: twitter.com

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X-twitter is my personal favorite. Ex-twitter works too.

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- TwitX
  
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- I've also seen Twixer, which I quite like.
  
  I still just call it Twitter though. Maybe when Musk gets bored someone will buy it and change it back.
  
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- Or xitter, with the xi pronounced shi
  
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I still use the old names; Facebook, Twitter
I don't care if they change their names. Less brain power used to stick to an old name most (still) know.

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- Facebook is still called that. The social media platform, that is; the company that runs it is now called Meta, and it makes sense to distinguish those.
  
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Twitter, formerly know as successful

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What about just "Ten"?

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Its literally twitter.com and I despise musk so its called twitter for all of time.

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The dumpster fire formally called Twitter.

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I say we just ignore it, everytime someone mentions it one red blood cell enters the Muskian dick

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Permanently Deleted

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I ignore it whenever possible but if I do say anything, it's called Twitter

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Whenever it occurs in spoken conversation, I call it X to highlight the absurdity of the rebranding. The other person either needs an explanation or a few seconds to figure out what I mean.

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I pronounce it “not c” instead of x

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- Come to think of it, "X" is awfully close, as a glyph, to a swastika.
  
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eXitter seems to be the correct name at the moment.

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- x can be pronounced as sh, so...shitter?
  
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  When you see the sewage that's being spewed there it's as good as any other name.
  
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Whether you call it Ex-twitter or X-twitter, I don't really care :-)

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XfkaTwitter

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its Twitter or shitter to me

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I refuse to call it anything other than twitter.

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Just call it lil musk's ego

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I listen to NPR regularly and their people seem to like saying "Twitter, which is now known as X." I dunno why though. I guess if someone doesn't know?

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X née Twitter

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The App Formerly Known as Twitter.

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I cal it "The thing formerly known as Twitter.", because it's short and to the point.
Just like when Musk tries to explain one of his many lies, like why the self driving cars he promised would be ready in 2017 haven't arrived yet.
Also it doesn't really matter if we call it a failed banking app, or a failed video app, or a failed message app. All of those are true. But it's shorter and easier to just call it "The thing formerly known as Twitter". Then everybody knows what you are talking about.

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- it’s short and to the point
  
  it's not though is it? just continue to say twitter, everyone will know what you mean
  
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  No it's not, it was a joke on using a stupid name, like when Musk changed it.
  
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- The PLATFORM formerly known as twitter.
  
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  But what platform is it really? Video? Banking? Or what Twitter used to be? IMO it's no longer a well defined platform as much as it's just a "thing" that is whatever Musk dreamt up last. It used to be Twitter, but it isn't even that anymore.
  
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  Is it still a platform tho? It sure looks more like a cliff to me nowadays.
  
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Twitter belonged to the people using it. It is appropriate to call it X for cancelled now.

Though similar to you, I always call it Twitter/X, in honor of what it used to be.

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