I still call it Twitter, because that's what it is.
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2024
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When he stops deadnaming his daughter, maybe I'll start to care about his attempted rebrand of Twitter
I still call Meta Facebook and alphabet Google... No one is confused, it's only ambiguous if you start getting into logistics about business units
Twitter didn't even reorganize, they just changed their name to something it feels dumb to say. It's actually less ambiguous to call it Twitter, because X is a confusing trademark
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This is the only sane response.
As a trans person, I like to remind everyone you are not just allowed but encouraged to deadname Twitter
Calling it deadnaming implies Twitter chose the name X. Twitter did not make that decision, thus calling Twitter Twitter is in no danger of offending Twitter.
Going to deadname Twitter as long as musk is deadnaming his daughter
Oohhh that’s a good one.
...what the heck is "deadnaming"?
Using a trans persons's birth name rather than their preferred name. If done purposefully, it's extremely insulting.
Thanks, I hadn't heard the term.
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Ooh. Excellent point. I will be disrespectfully deadnaming Twitter from now on.
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We should stop calling it.
Just do what The Register does
Twitter, the social media service now calling itself X,
Respect, but... No.
Xitter. Pronounced shitter.
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Xitter
Pronounced "shitter"
Tweets are Xcrements
The only acceptable answer
And tweets are xits
It's much easier to simply keep calling it Twitter. Further syllables add nothing.
Just call it Shitter, because that's what it is.
Spelled "Xitter"
Or you could call it what Linus on Wan show by Linus Tech Tips YT channel made up: ex-Twitter You essentially say both of the names and the fact that Twitter is the "old name". But as a F-u to Musk, we should just call it Twitter.
Just use the URL: twitter.com
Twitter, formerly know as successful
I still use the old names; Facebook, Twitter
I don't care if they change their names. Less brain power used to stick to an old name most (still) know.
Facebook is still called that. The social media platform, that is; the company that runs it is now called Meta, and it makes sense to distinguish those.
Its literally twitter.com and I despise musk so its called twitter for all of time.
What about just "Ten"?
$8chan
I say we just ignore it, everytime someone mentions it one red blood cell enters the Muskian dick
I ignore it whenever possible but if I do say anything, it's called Twitter
The dumpster fire formally called Twitter.
Whenever it occurs in spoken conversation, I call it X to highlight the absurdity of the rebranding. The other person either needs an explanation or a few seconds to figure out what I mean.
Whether you call it Ex-twitter or X-twitter, I don't really care :-)
I refuse to call it anything other than twitter.
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