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Worked great when the artist formerly known as Prince changed his name to a symbol.

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[–] Nyanix@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

The eX-Bird App?

[–] Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In short, ex-twitter?

[–] mrbubblesort@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I liked the idea of pronouncing it "10" like the Roman numeral. It's not necessarily incorrect, and it fucks with Elon's ego

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

I’ve been pronouncing it like that sound a gameshow buzzer makes when you get something wrong or run out of time.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm going with the Cyrillic pronunciation: Zh

[–] Gsus4@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cyrillic Х is "Kh", Ж is "Zh".

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Even better. Sounds like you're a little sick every time you say the name.

[–] Cat@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That is long, lets acronymize it: TWFKAT, pronounced twif-cat.

[–] camelbeard@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Would be nice if we could call them TWATS

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[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So does a "tweet" become a "message/action formerly known as a tweet?" That's gonna get tiresome reeeeeal fast.

I love it.

"I was on the website formerly known as Twitter and I read this really funny message formerly known as a tweet about how Elon Musk is totally botching the website formerly known as Twitter. I totally action formerly known as retweeted it."

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[–] Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How about we keep calling it Twitter, because big shitty companies don't get to have the privilege of rebranding so we forget how shitty they are.

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

I say just let it continue to lose its brand value by muddying the waters.

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

Twitter's eX

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

I am going to call it twatter just to make people have a moment of "wait did he say what I think he said or did I mishear him?"

[–] MixedRaceHumanAI@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] Merulox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Keep calling it twitter.

[–] notelonmusk@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I for one think X is a very cool name. Nice rebranding!

[–] CrapConnoisseur@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can we get it to wear assless chaps while we're at it?

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[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Some publications often do this. At least on Reuteres, as well as other news sites, I've seen that Twitter/X is now referred to as "X, formerly Twitter", probably to avoid confusion.

But "the website formerly known as Twitter" is just too lengthy for everyday conversation. I just call it Twitter, everyone knows what it means

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Just refer to it as “My X”

[–] itsnotlupus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've been having fun writing a dumb userscript to help me cope with this.

Yes, it can put back a bird of your choosing as a logo, but why stop there.

Instead of tweeting on Twitter, I can now spez on Reddit, skeet on Bluesky, or just eXecrate on X, the Elon way.

It's ridiculous and pointless, and I'm not sorry.

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[–] loom_in_essence@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm still calling it twitter.

[–] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

The eXsocial media company.

[–] HamSwagwich@showeq.com 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Let's just make it a symbol.

I propose two lines on top of each other on the diagonal.

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