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[-] Rockyrikoko@lemm.ee 75 points 10 months ago

I'm partial to calling it Xitter, pronounced shitter

[-] over_clox@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago

And Tweets are now called Xits. 👍

[-] variants@possumpat.io 24 points 10 months ago
[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 8 points 10 months ago

Mastodon was way ahead of the trend when they decided to call the messages toots.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 55 points 10 months ago

Nope. It's Twitter. It will continue to be Twitter. I will not cater to the whims of billionaires.

The website is Twitter.

The company is Facebook.

The rapper is Kanye West.

[-] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Wait, is Kanye going by something else now?

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

Yes, he wants to be called Ye. Fuck him.

[-] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Well that's...something...

[-] SPOOSER@lemmy.today 7 points 10 months ago

The more fitting name I've seen him called is Yittler

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

This isn't how I have imagined the internet aging gracefully.

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

The internet service provider is Cingular.

[-] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago
[-] Resol@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Make them chocolate bars

[-] DarkDarkHouse 4 points 10 months ago

Such a fail that the website is still literally Twitter.com.

[-] Redb34rd@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago

I mean it was the same with Meta and we still call it Facebook to this day. Renaming a brand just doesn't work, when it's already established...

[-] Weslee@lemmy.world 47 points 10 months ago

Facebook the service is still Facebook, the company that runs it is called meta

[-] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 23 points 10 months ago

Yes, I feel like all these Big Tech companies changed the parent company name (Facebook -> Meta, Google -> Alphabet) to confuse end users when they read news about how they harvest our data don't respect our privacy: the news talk about a big company spying on users, users know a few app names and most don't link both together

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 13 points 10 months ago

its also about shuffling financial liabilities around, ya know, so businesses can avoid paying for stuff. corporate welfare

[-] EddieTee77@lemdro.id 1 points 10 months ago
[-] over_clox@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Yet Lizard Man is still called Lizard Man, go figure..

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

Xfinity will always be Comcast to me. Not sure why they tried to rebrand.

[-] ericisshort@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They tried to rebrand because they had an incredibly low customer satisfaction rating associated with Comcast (I wonder why?). I worked for that horrible company during the rebrand and they told us as much. It actually did end up positively affecting consumer opinion (because people are morons), so much so that Time Warner Cable and Cablevision followed suit a few years later rebranding their services respectively to Spectrum and Optimum.

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

In a weird way, some Zuckerberg haters love calling it Meta because that more closely evokes the enbarassing metaverse / VR crap they’ve been so into. Facebook was an incredibly successful website but Meta is a joke.

[-] ChlorineAddict@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

I’ve been going with “The Social Media Platform Formerly Known as Twitter”.

[-] wellnowletssee@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

So TSMPFKaT? That’s catchy!

[-] teegus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

TSMPFKaT could be the new WUPHF

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 10 months ago

The new name of Twitter is X, just like Elon calls all the women in his life

[-] rocky1138@sh.itjust.works 15 points 10 months ago

The new name of Twitter is irrelevant

[-] csolisr@communities.azkware.net 15 points 10 months ago

And don't forget the full name would be "X, formerly known as Twitter, formerly known as twttr" https://logos-world.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Twitter-Logo-History.jpg

[-] Deestan@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

It's funny, our news outlet calls it exactly that. They used to say "according to police on Twitter" but now they write "according to police on X, formerly known as Twitter".

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago

"The artist formerly known as Prince"

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

I always say "The social media formerly known as Twitter"

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee -2 points 10 months ago
[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Mf space Karen thinks he can prince his way out of this mess...

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago

I prefer "worse mastodon"

this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2023
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