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[-] joneskind@lemmy.world 64 points 1 year ago

sorry, I’m not gonna call it X

I have mixed feelings about this one.

Should I call it X because all that was cool about Twitter is now dead so it would make sense to stop giving that terrible social network any credit from the former one?

Or should I continue to call it Twitter because I know it will infuriate Musk that no one recognise X as his own company?

Or should I use a totally different name that everybody will understand, like say The dead bird, and kill two birds with one stone?

[-] Cabrio@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nah, Musk has been trying to co-opt the 24th letter of the alphabet for 30 years, he's a wannabe Steve Jobs and he wants his own one letter legacy.

The only thing the rebranding has done is make Twitter an X-platform (pun intended).

[-] Gork@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

The Social Media Site Formerly Known As Twitter

[-] CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

TSMSFKAT

Rolls right of the tongue

[-] Busy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Tiss-Miss-Fah-Kat

[-] elscallr@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago
[-] Huxleywaswrite@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

It's just pining for the fjords

[-] HughJanus@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

"The birdsite" is a pretty common one.

[-] joneskind@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Indeed.

I had it in mind TBH

But “bird site” doesn’t sound as bad as “dead bird”

[-] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Do what Elon does with his kid. Dead name it to annoy Elon. Also shame on him for dead naming and misgendering his own child.

[-] Saneless@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Calling it Twitter is a reminder that the product/site used to be pretty interesting instead of a broken right wing child sex abuse platform

[-] Gort@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago
[-] kilkil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

you wouldn't really be killing 2 birds with 1 stone. You'd be beating a dead bird with the stone, though

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