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[–] [email protected] 354 points 2 years ago (4 children)

"What about X and a space, either before or after?" software developer Yusuf Alp suggested a potential workaround in response to Berlin's post.

"He already has a company called SpaceX," chuckled Berlin.

Gold.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

This is amazing :)

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Trailing and leading spaces are almost always trimmed in such cases, but that is indeed very funny.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This could very well indicate resentment of Twitter employees, they were told to change name to X, they tried and it didn't work, so they did nothing else.

Perfect example of notmyjob.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That took me way too long to get lol

[–] [email protected] 177 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is your hourly reminder that being born into a family that owns an emerald mine doesn't automatically make you a fucking genius

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't know what's sadder, that he tried to say that the Emerald Mine was a myth or that my Libertarian friends bought that shit.

[–] [email protected] 157 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I'm sure this won't end up being a huge deal, but the funny part is that this apparently wasn't planned for. Gives you some insight into how much of a shit show Twitter/X HQ must be right now.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think it's fait to just call it Twitter and not "x" or "twitter/x" or "x social" or "Twitter but actually x"

X will never stick 😅

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I think I’m okay with it being referred to as “the social media network formerly known as Twitter” from here on out.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

I'm not. Prince was awesome. He changed his name to a symbol because Warner Bros trademarked his name and wouldn't let him do what he wanted with his own music. People started calling him The Artist Formally Know as Prince. But the reason was ignored and everyone made fun of him.

Musk is an idiot and loser and shouldn't be even tangentially compared to Prince.

I much prefer to call it "10"

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Call it "no", or maybe "close button".

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This might hurt a little, but I don’t think most people today know who Prince is. I just know that he was a musician. That sentence is also a commonly used sentence in such scenarios, unrelated to one person.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

eX-Twitter.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

“Elon, stop trying to make X happen. It’s not going to happen.”

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It was cool in the 90s like i in front of a word was cool in the 00/10s. That was his era.

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lol awesome. Fuck Elon Musk.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago

no thanks. I don't fuck manbabies.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Seems obvious. They should just add 2 more X's.

[–] Molzor 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would prefer if they add one x on either side.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

xXx - Sponsored by Vin Diesel?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

It's more fitting than most people might realize with how their "For You" section now shows you full nudity every 5th posts.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Pretty easy solution. Just show it in the App Store as “X - A Social Media App” or some shit

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"The App Formerly Know as Twitter"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

The Prince solution, I like it.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Apple discourages adding subtitle as part of the app name and I don't recall ever seeing one, so they might even disallow it.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's quite something how Twitter has been constantly tinkered with since musk took over, and instead of making any tangible improvements, it's actually just created more mess.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Inb4 he throws an ego-driven temper tantrum because they won’t make an exception to a rule that has existed since the dawn of the app store specifically for his special ass.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

“Did you know Steve Jobs was a pedo?” “Oh shut up, Elon.”

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Good old minimum character validation

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I admittedly didn’t read the article. Is that the reason or does someone already have an app called X? Either way they can just call it like “X - Formerly known as Twitter” but he’s probably too childish to do that.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Good. I'm all for (even the smallest) confrontations between shitty billionaires and/or shitty corporations.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Right? Shit politicians too. Ron DeSantis got me rootin' for fucking Disney. I hate Disney in general, but I wish they'd play more serious Illuminati hardball with DeSantis.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

X FOR iOS is probably better. But being an app developer and dealing with apple bullshit so many times I'm frothing over how delicious this snack is.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

That news is actually funny 😁

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Everytime you post/upvote Musk spam he gets free marketing. Downvote this shit.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

They should try 𝕏

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

X, by X Corp? Fuck Elon btw

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can they just do “-X-“? Just as stupid, but whatever.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago

I vote for xX-[X]-Xx

Alas, this being the darkest timeline, we'll probably end up with X Social.

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