Instead of "X", how about we all call it "the website formerly known as Twitter" from now on?
Instead of "X", how about we all call it "the website formerly known as Twitter" from now on?
Worked great when the artist formerly known as Prince changed his name to a symbol.
How about we just stop mentioning it at all?
154 3 ReplySo...treat it like your...ex?
17 0 ReplyThis, I'm so sick of "I want to hurt something... so I'm going to continually talk about it".
It's the worst in games, because all it does is get more people to talk/know/hear about a game. Cyberpunk 2077 was a bad launch, instead of just harping on that, I wish every post was "Instead of Cyberpunk 2077, I'm playing X game and it's amazing" Get people interested in something else... and in general stop talking about this shit.
13 2 ReplyLemmy users trying to not talk about Twatter or Reddit
5 0 ReplyYep, this is exactly the kind of worthless post that started making reddit unbearable years ago.
Can we please not immediately ruin this new platform with this shit so soon?
10 6 ReplyConsidering we still constantly talk about reddit... no it's already been ruined.
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Nah, I'm just going to keep calling it Shitshow
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Nah. Prince changed his name to stick it to the record label that was fucking him over. That was his livelihood at stake.
No one needs Twitter. I don't even have an account.
50 1 ReplyAnd Prince was so good we would listen to his new stuff no matter what he called himself.
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Saw someone on lemmy calling it 'Ten', thought that was quite funny.
26 0 ReplyBut ten also sounds kind of cool, we should build our own ten, with blackjack
8 0 ReplyAnd hookers?
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I prefer "the ex social media platform"
25 0 ReplyI like calling it "ten". I don't think Musk would like it, so that is what I will call it.
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I just call it the "I stopped caring about that site a long time ago" site.
24 0 ReplyI'm still calling it Twitter. Always will.
22 0 ReplyYep. That website is Twitter and that rapper is Kanye West. I refuse to kowtow to the whims of the ultra-wealthy.
10 1 ReplyKanye goes by something else? You know what, I still don't care. Nevermind.
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I don't call it anything because I don't really talk about it.
22 0 ReplyHow about we don't talk about it at all?
18 0 ReplyWho fucking cares? How about we just don't mention that piece of garbage.
17 0 ReplyWould rather just not talk about it
17 1 ReplyPrefer to give it 0 energy. Even this comment is pushing it.
6 1 ReplyWhat is "it"? I don't know what we're talking about here :)
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10/Ten Elon would hate it.
15 0 ReplyHe is loving everyone getting baited and gaining tons of atraction
2 0 ReplyI'm still here...
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I’ll continue to refer to it the way I do now, which is to not refer to it at all.
14 0 ReplyThe amount of posts about Twitter and Musk are flat out disturbing...
14 1 ReplySeeing what Elon Musk wants to do with it, we should probably be calling it "spyware".
12 0 ReplyWe got "#Birdsite" on Mastodon for ages, seems fitting to just continue with that to me! ;)
11 0 Replywould be funny if everyone just started calling it "ten".
11 0 ReplyI don't get it?
4 1 ReplyX is the Roman numeral for 10
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Too long. I call it shitter.
10 0 ReplyJust call it Twitter. They're going to either go back to the old branding, or they'll be out of business shortly enough that it wouldn't even make sense to bother referring to it as X.
It's Twitter.
10 0 ReplyI kind of like Xwitter, since the X almost looks like a sideways T, almost like it's gone into disrepair and fallen over, like a billionaire idiot had stopped paying the bills or was sabotaging it with his incompetence.
11 1 ReplyAlternative suggestion: just let the shot crash and burn and don't spend your time on an alternative platform obsessing about a different platform. Same for reddit.
It really doesn't make this platform better.
10 0 Replyjust call it "Ten" like roman numerals
10 0 ReplyI will just keep calling it Twitter just like I still say Hotmail.
10 0 ReplyI still say hotmail. I still have a hotmail account...
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I prefer the name Null, just ignore it and move on...
9 0 ReplyI vote for shitter.
10 1 ReplyTwatter
3 0 Replyhttps://www.f-droid.org/packages/org.nuclearfog.twidda/
Was previously a Twitter client
3 0 ReplyWould fit the hole xcreting (former tweeting)
2 0 ReplyXitter
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On that note, I suggest we rename Reddit to Fuckit
9 1 ReplyReddit Was Fun (until spez der hurensohn ruined it).
2 0 ReplyOr Lettit.
This can be derived in two ways:
- The german way: reddit -> readit -> lases -> lasses -> letit -> lettit
- The asian way. (sorry)
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I'll keep calling it what it is - Twitter
8 1 ReplyYeah, specially with Musk is now true to name, he's the One True Twit.
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I would prefer to just not talk about it.
7 0 ReplyI call it Larry.
This was the name used for the Twitter bird from 2010 to 2012 before redesigning it into what we had before 𝕏.
6 0 ReplyI’m fond of “Titanic”.
6 0 ReplyFormerly Known as Twitter is too long .... FKT hit it on a few levels.
5 0 ReplyFKT reads like “fuck it” to me, which I completely resonate with
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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?"
5 0 ReplyI say just let it continue to lose its brand value by muddying the waters.
5 0 ReplyThe eX-Bird App?
5 0 ReplyNo, because that would imply Musk and Twitter is on the same level as TAFKA Prince.
5 0 ReplyPlus, Prince did it to get out of a shitty record contract, musk did it because he's stuck at age 11 emotionally.
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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."
4 0 ReplyTweets are now called "X-crement"
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Twitter's eX
4 0 ReplyxXxx
4 0 ReplyHow 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.
4 0 ReplyExcept they do, and they do it all the time.
- Comcast / Spectrum
- Century Link / Lumen
Just two glaring examples. There's tons more out there.
1 0 ReplyThey only get away with it because it's easier to let them. But if we collectively refuse to acknowledge it then the rebranding tactic will no longer be valid.
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In short, ex-twitter?
4 0 ReplyThat is long, lets acronymize it: TWFKAT, pronounced twif-cat.
4 0 ReplyWould be nice if we could call them TWATS
3 0 ReplyMy thoughts exactly.
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I liked the idea of pronouncing it "10" like the Roman numeral. It's not necessarily incorrect, and it fucks with Elon's ego
4 0 ReplyI’ve been pronouncing it like that sound a gameshow buzzer makes when you get something wrong or run out of time.
4 0 ReplyI'm going with the Cyrillic pronunciation: Zh
3 0 ReplyCyrillic Х is "Kh", Ж is "Zh".
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I'm still calling it twitter.
4 1 ReplyI for one think X is a very cool name. Nice rebranding!
5 2 ReplyKeep calling it twitter.
3 0 ReplyI'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.
2 0 ReplyI prefer to "Toot" on Mastodon or "Ignore all this pointless bullshit" on Kbin
5 0 Reply@metaStatic @CyberTaco @itsnotlupus
When I'm done with Lemmy for the day, I like to creep on my AskLemmy users from Mastodon.
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Let's just make it a symbol.
I propose two lines on top of each other on the diagonal.
3 1 ReplyElon finds your idea intriguing, but, hear him out- what if we made those lines perpendicular, and then added another line at each end at a 90-degree angle?
6 0 ReplyNah, it needs to be 7 red lines. All of them strictly perpendicular; some with green ink and some with transparent. Can you do that?
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The eXsocial media company.
2 0 ReplyShitter?
2 0 ReplyCan we get it to wear assless chaps while we're at it?
2 0 ReplyAll chaps are assless.
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Just refer to it as “My X”
2 0 ReplySome 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
2 0 ReplyI prefer twatter
2 0 ReplyPlatform: Twatter Users: Twitterati
I have been using this for years
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I never stopped calling him Prince 😂
1 0 Reply🍗 (the website formerly known as Twitter)
1 0 ReplyI'm calling it the "X-porn". :^)
2 1 ReplyY'know, they changed the name of an avenue nearby my childhood house from a single word name to the name of an obscure politician. This happened 30 years ago. People in the city still refer to it as it's old name so much that they might not even know the current name.
1 0 ReplyJust because he has money, doesn't mean he gets to tell you what things are called.
They changed the name of the millennium dome in London to "the 02 Arena".
I'm not letting you pay someone else for me to say your (unrelated) brand's name in private conversation.
If Verizon sponsored the Whitehouse and said "it's called the Verizon Democracy Centre" now, what would you call it?
2 1 ReplyCompletely agree. Pisses me off when people refer to a football league by its' sponsored name.
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This post isn't even a question
1 0 ReplyPersonally I call it "Gone, but not forgotten"
1 1 ReplyWhat are we talking about?
2 0 ReplyTwitter the over-rated bullshit that got bought by Elon Musk who basically took it outback with a rifle and....
Oh wait a second, I see what you're doing.
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I'd really rather forget it forever.
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