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[–] soba@lemmy.ca 69 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's just something so pathetic about failing to start your dream company called X in 1999, and then twenty years later when your ultra rich buying some other company and renaming it X to try and finally feel like you won, you did it, you made a globally important social media company called x. The struggle is over. At last.

[–] InternetPerson@lemmings.world 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

globally important

This is continually decreasing.

It's even funnier that the website itself is still using "twitter" as URL.

[–] user224 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, not anymore. It's already fully migrated to x.com.

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

It still refers to itself as Twitter though. X referring to itself as twitter

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I cannot prove this as it is a theory someone else proposed, but I sincerely believe that his obsession with the letter X is due to the fact that many native African tribes signed away all their rights and privileges with an X mark, since they were illiterate.