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or maybe eX-twitter

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[-] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 100 points 10 months ago

How about we ghost it until it becomes irrelevant instead.

[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 89 points 10 months ago

How about just STOP TALKING ABOUT IT.

[-] sour@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago
[-] guyrocket@kbin.social 19 points 10 months ago

No need to be sour about it.

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[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 57 points 10 months ago

He deadnames his own child, and yet gets butthurt when the internet deadnames his company. I feel like just “Twitter” is the biggest insult we could collectively give to him as a person, in this context.

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Exactly. This. Twitter. That's it. Melon Husk doesn't get a say, he ought to be ignored completely by everyone.

[-] Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago

Call it nothing and let it die

[-] kescusay@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I've been calling it Xitter. The X is pronounced "sh."

[-] SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

I like the sass, but do people know what you’re talking about in spoken conversation?

[-] totallynotarobot@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

You think the people posting snarky shit on the internet are engaging in spoken conversation with other humans? I promise we're not.

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[-] lwuy9v5@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

I feel like it'll piss off the shitbag more if no one calls it X, so, that's what I'm going with

[-] MyUnclesSecret@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

Could just stop talking about it all together.

[-] Pratai@lemmy.ca 32 points 10 months ago

Why don’t we just stop talking about it altogether.

[-] Album@lemmy.ca 29 points 10 months ago

I like Xitter. Kinda like shitter if you pretend it's like a Chinese x sound

[-] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 10 points 10 months ago

brb posting a Xeet real quick.

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[-] kubok@kbin.social 29 points 10 months ago

I'll just keep referring it to as Twitter if I ever need to talk about it.

[-] traches@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

Corporations don’t get to have deadnames

[-] PissinSelfNdriveway@sh.itjust.works 27 points 10 months ago

Oooor how bout we just fucking stop talking about and using Twitter

[-] phillaholic@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

[I don't think about you at all meme]

[-] Hardeehar@lemm.ee 25 points 10 months ago
[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 27 points 10 months ago

Play it cool. Nobody's going to know you're a time traveling Roman

"Hey guys, did you see what's trending on 10?"

[-] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

...or - hear me out here - we all just stop using that asswipe's platform?!?

Crazy, I know!

[-] acutfjg@feddit.nl 21 points 10 months ago

Just call it Twitter since Elon doesn't believe in calling people by their names

[-] KrimsonBun@lemmy.ml 21 points 10 months ago
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[-] Decimit@lemm.ee 20 points 10 months ago

It’s twitter and always will be twitter until dick bag fully runs it into the ground.

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

I prefer Xitter, but to make it more apparent what the pronunciation is I spell it out more phonetically as "shitter".

[-] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

I just don’t talk about the name change, pretty similar to how I’ve barely given twitter notice for the past decade

[-] AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 10 months ago

I mean, I just still call it Twitter. Probably will until the end of it.

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 5 points 10 months ago

Which hopefully comes soon

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Who wouldn't know what you were talking about if you just called it Twitter?

Don't cater to the whims of billionaires. Not even a little.

[-] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

It's Xitter (shitter) and nothing else.

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[-] zurohki@aussie.zone 12 points 10 months ago

The ~~artist formerly known as Prince~~ platform formerly known as Twitter.

[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 11 points 10 months ago

I'm cool with just never calling it.

[-] ganksy@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Yeah I think twitter is fine. Plus it might drive the rat king out of his marbles.

[-] LeftHandedWave@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

I think we should call it "Ten".

[-] jadegear@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

Keep calling it Twitter but add @Deprecated so future users know to avoid it?

[-] sheilzy@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

I mean, it still is Twitter. That's the URL that people use to access the site. Tbh I have no idea if Musk actually went through the effort of changing the company name in the business licensing or other company paperwork. Just the logo and header seem to say X. But I agree, I'm getting so annoyed with journalists calling it "the site formerly known as Twitter." so dumb.

[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

They are probably doing it for SEO.

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[-] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 10 months ago

Playing into it and calling it X does actually reduce the effectiveness of twitter's branding. Just call it X, let people be confused, and let that kill the fun so they will just move on already.

[-] DoruDoLasu@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

𝕏 sounds stupid so I say it, its old brand was something it currently does not deserve

imagine being an 𝕏 user 𝕏ing on their 𝕏 and re𝕏ing other people's 𝕏es

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[-] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Anything is fine as long as we call tweets xcrements

[-] Minarble@aussie.zone 5 points 10 months ago

I’m still sticking with calling it “Y”

[-] unreachable@lemmy.my.id 8 points 10 months ago

"Y" is already taken, by something called an "existential crisis"

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[-] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

If you're so keen on renaming twitter then maybe don't make fun of Elon wanting to do the same.

It's twitter. Always has been.

[-] tabular@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Or twitter, for short

[-] Maho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago
[-] Licherally@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

I call it xruth social

[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

or just leave that shit hole platform and stop talking about it

[-] lorez@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago

Too lazy to do that.

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