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or maybe eX-twitter

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[–] [email protected] 101 points 2 years ago

How about we ghost it until it becomes irrelevant instead.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How about just STOP TALKING ABOUT IT.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No need to be sour about it.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

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

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

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 years ago

Call it nothing and let it die

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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

[–] SkepticalButOpenMinded 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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

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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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years 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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

Could just stop talking about it all together.

[–] Pratai 32 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Album 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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

brb posting a Xeet real quick.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Corporations don’t get to have deadnames

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] ImplyingImplications 27 points 2 years 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?"

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

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

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

Crazy, I know!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Which hopefully comes soon

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's Xitter (shitter) and nothing else.

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

I'm cool with just never calling it.

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

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

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

I think we should call it "Ten".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years 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.

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

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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Anything is fine as long as we call tweets xcrements

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Or twitter, for short

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m still sticking with calling it “Y”

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Too lazy to do that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I prefer "site formerly know as twitter" most

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