I understand not only the what, but the why

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.

That site is as dead as Reddit to me now. I don't care whatever it's called

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.

Calling it "X" is anything but professional.

"Xitter". It pronounces almost like "Shitter".

The name is "X, formerly known as twitter"

Thats it. Thats the whole name.

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"

I'm partial to Xitter

I'm always shocked to see Tumblr talking about current events because I forget there's people still there

My Aussie friend calls it 'a platform from a cunt for a bunch of cunts'. I think I'll go with that.

I wonder if they’ll roll back the name change at some point, seems almost inevitable if Elon ever sells it.

Personally I don’t think I’ll ever call it X, not even out of dislike for Elon, just because it will always be stuck in my head as Twitter.

Oh no. Imagine having to talk about twitter in a professional setting. Those poor bastards.

I call it "X, formerly Twitter"

I really don't have a passionate stance about it, I just know I called it Twitter for ages, X is shitty branding and isn't going to work, and I stopped using the platform well before Musk took over, so I'm not doing any sort of mental labor trying to make myself use the crap name he chose.

It's a dead website to me, and it's everyone else's problem that they trapped themselves on Twitter, having no career without it. I'm not doing a single thing on behalf of anybody who is still there, those are ghosts, let them howl in the attic, I don't work here.

It's not a human person. It's a website full of assholes. I would make an effort for a transitioning person, but not for Elon Musk and his ham-fisted stupidity, for the folly of some wealthy prick.

It's Twitter until I forget what it's called.

I call it X(уйня)

X is too short and generic. It is literally just a letter.

Shitter, clearly the only acceptable name.

Won't even use it for porn now.

The convention for websites is generally "name" dot com or "name" dot org. If you want to change the name, change the website name.

Until we start going to x.com instead, I'm going to talk about twitter(.com)

“Xwitter”

The X is like a fallen over t. Like twitter, falling apart.

I started typing xxx and found new sites I enjoy more.

I try not to refer to it at all, but when I have to refer to it at work I call it "uuggh, that xitter site".

I'm going to keep calling it twitter no matter what

As long as Elon dead names his child (and supports dead naming), I'm dead naming that dumpster fire Twitter.

How about "I just change the subject whenever that irrelevant we site is brought up"

"Other/Results".

Possible candidates:

1. The digital dumpster fire
2. The scream hole
3. Rag you can doom scroll
4. "You know, I don't want to say it aloud"
5. The slightly moderated version of Parlour
6. Not-Reddit
7. The tower of babel

and, lastly

8. The town square of mental disease

"Don't @ me bro"

Twatter

Shouldn't renaming a social media really be up to the users? Shouldn't twitter users vote on that?

We just conceded that social media are owned by some corporate entity but the only values is in the users themselves. They build it. They should "own" and control the social media democratically, it should be accountable to them. It seems much more obvious than with traditional media that these should be democratic institutions.

Elon Musk behaving so blatantly stupid is unusual but the problem is really much larger.

People talk about Twitter?

In professional settings, I still call it Twitter because my customers doesnt know or understand the name change

Epic rebranding fail.

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"

I am still waiting for a well-known media to call it "the website commonly known as Xitter", instead of "the website formerly known as Twitter".

The owner wants it to be called "X", it is disrespectful to call it anything else. It is a happy coincidence that all name recognition is gone.