I don’t use it, but i’ll forever call it Twitter.
X is still such a stupid fucking name. I feel cringe saying that.
Submitted 3 months ago by MattW03@lemmy.ca to [deleted]
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moon@lemmy.cafe 3 months ago
InternetUser2012@lemmy.today 3 months ago
I won’t. It will always be twitter, and he bought it because people made fun of him.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 months ago
He offered to buy it as a joke, and was forced to finish the transaction.
frunch@lemmy.world 3 months ago
As long as twitter.com redirects there, it’s twitter 👐
saltesc@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s very “hacking, trenchcoats, and Muse are cool” isn’t it?
Like, yeah. Obviously this guy thought of it… Image
uis@lemm.ee 3 months ago
X11 is such a great name
moon@lemmy.cafe 3 months ago
I always just hear it referred to as xorg, which I pronounce “x-org”
VantaBrandon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Its almost funnier to see every news publication constantly refer to it as “X (formerly known as Twitter”), the constant need to remind people of how stupid the decision was it amusing
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I prefer “Twitter (temporarily known as X)”
CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com 3 months ago
That would imply he or someone else will change the name back to Twitter
suzune@ani.social 3 months ago
Ex Twitter
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 3 months ago
He looks high as giraffe pussy in that picture.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 months ago
…ya know, I’m 40 years old, and up until this point in my life I’ve never once considered what a giraffe pussy looks like…and my brain isn’t capable of doing so. Maybe that’s a good thing.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
Ask and you shall receive:
NSFW, but not pornographic
Click here for a non-sexualized video of the birth of a baby giraffe. It’s pretty high!
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 3 months ago
black lips to match the tongue
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
The bottom eyelids are a dead giveaway
Banichan@dormi.zone 3 months ago
Joe Rogan, is that you?
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Maybe he should buy Alphabet and rename their search engine.
Ooh or he could buy out Kleenex and rename that.
What the fuck would make someone throw out the name Twitter? It wasn’t a bad name. It wasn’t like…Phillip Morris or something.
pyre@lemmy.world 3 months ago
“wasn’t a bad name” is the understatement of the year. it was one of the most successful brand names ever. normal people with functioning brains would kill to have a brand that’s so ingrained in the language, especially without the threat of genericizing the trademark.
xerox didn’t want people to use xerox as a generic verb to mean photocopy, or kleenex the same for a generic tissue.
but Twitter was never used to mean another social media site, and tweeting never means posting on Facebook or Tumblr or whatever. a tweet is specifically a post on Twitter. that’s the perfect brand.
rekorse@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Is this just a really bad business deal followed by absurdly poor leadership, but very visible?
Did Elon make it obvious he had a completely different vision for twitter when he talked about buying it?
fox2263@lemmy.world 3 months ago
He’s been wanting to have an “everything” company named X for years, since before PayPal I think. So he jumped at the chance to ruin twitter of course and rebuild it from the top down
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
He was let go at PayPal because he tried to make it x.
radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Maybe he should buy Alphabet and rename their search engine.
He’d probably do it because of his hatred for “aLphABeT PeOpLE!” like his own kid. That fucking prick. If he was on fire, I’d piss on him, but not at the base of the flames.
Zink@programming.dev 3 months ago
I think all he managed to do, other than torching a legendary amount of money, was to create a bunch of easy content for some lazy college students in marketing 101. The ones who don’t want to dig to find something more interesting and nuanced.
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I don’t think he has $1T, which is half the market cap
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 3 months ago
There’s no such thing as deadnaming a company/corporation/brand, they aren’t a living entity and have no will of their own, the one offended is their owner.
Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
except they get more rights
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m fine with offending Musk by calling his precious website Twitter. Aren’t you?
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 3 months ago
It isn’t exactly dead naming, of course i’ll happily do it. I did it for multiple other corporation that change hand and name, i’ll still call the name that i used to call it, confusing the younger generation is a plus, offending the CEO is the goal.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 3 months ago
And yet Elon’s mad that everyone still calls the platform he’s managed to actually make worse “twitter”.
Lightor@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You’d be rightfully surprised.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I’m gonna deadname his company for as long as he deadnames his kid :)
Agent641@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Is there anything the average person can do to increase the running cost of Twitter without increasing their revenue?
Like, can we just automate uploading videos of nothing meaningful, and re-loading them over and over forever?
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I’m still pushing Xitter, pronounced with the “shee” sound
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Aedis@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This is the way.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 months ago
It is always morally correct to deadname transphobes. Including JD Vance who’s “Real” name is James Bowman
Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
[deleted]pancakes@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
The D in his name is for couch because that’s the only place he wants to put it
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
what like “Tommy Robinson, Whose Real Name Is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon”, where you have to use the full name at all times
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Awww. Poor Twitler doesn’t like his propaganda arm called Twitter.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s pretty much what I’ve said about Twitter since he changed the name- I’ll keep calling it Twitter while he still allows deadnaming.
Slovene@feddit.nl 3 months ago
I thought we all agreed to call it shitter?
Traegert@lemm.ee 3 months ago
South park called that years ago
makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
What is deadnaming?
subignition@fedia.io 3 months ago
Intentionally using the former name ("dead name") of a (typically trans) person with the intent to cause harm
makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Okay, now that you’ve edited your comment to clarify, it makes sense. The term dead seemed quite literal in your previous and original text, but now I can see it is a term for that part of society, when they change their name and leave the ordinary behind., and it is insulting to that person.
Since it wasn’t clear at the start, but that’s okay. Now it makes sense.
makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
That is incredibly niche. I’m sure 99.999% of the population would not know what that is, were it happening to them.
I mean, how many names of dead trans people would the general person on the street know?
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
When saying the name of a trans person, it’s when you use their previous name from before their transition. E.g. saying Ellen Page instead of Elliot Page.
Presumably it can also mean just calling someone by their previous name that they prefer to leave behind, even if not trans.
I have no idea who Musk’s child is and no desire to look it up.
marcos@lemmy.world 3 months ago
He (or she, I really don’t remember) became famous from receiving a really bad name.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Don’t call it, this place is irrelevant, just don’t mention it anymore, only idiots, normies and boomers are left
Tja@programming.dev 3 months ago
“Only the vast majority of the population are left” is a weird argument to make.
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Never. “X” is so cringey to say.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I’ll call it twitter until twitter.com is a different website
oyo@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Dude literally bought Kleenex and insists you call it facial tissue paper.
Neon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
deadnames?
Like, something with AEX12? Pretty sure it doesn’t mean he has an actual dead child
inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Corporations are not people. They do not have a sense of identity. They do not deserve the same rights as humans. They are not capable of being affected by things like gender dysphoria. A corporation does not have feelings and is only a word we use to describe a collective form of actions made by ACTUAL humans.
You literally can not deadname a company. But Elon should understand the hypocrisy none the less.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I still don’t use twitter
lugal@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
What about his child? The one with the name that qualifies as a good password?
theacharnian@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Haha, funny. This guy thinks he can tell me what to do.
Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I was following various folks on there but never much posted.
Then, a couple weeks ago they implemented some kind of “live” feature that started spamming notifications like crazy. The only way to disable it was to disable user notifications, which means Twitter went totally quiet for me.
I’ve checked in a couple times in the interim, but looks like I’m pretty much done with that app. I guess it was Elon’s next step on the path to destroying Twitter.
Hikermick@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Musk-chan?
expatriado@lemmy.world 3 months ago
don’t worry, i don’t name either
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I will absolutely not call it anything but twitter
mechoman444@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Asking out of genuine curiosity how would one go about moderating or restricting deadnaming on Twitter from an applicable technical perspective?
kokesh@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Twitter twitter twitter, you asshole
SurfinBird@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Can we call it Twix
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Hey, good news, Elon. Most of us have gone from calling it “twitter” to calling it “that facist shithole that used to be twitter”.
Good job wasting 43 BILLION dollars only to see it’s traffic literally cut in half, you micro-penised shitstain on society. You will not be remembered as the genius your group of ass kissers tell you you are. You’ll be remembered as being dumber than a one brain celled orange tabby.
ceenote@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You’re being optimistic. He won’t be remembered at all.
Moob@lemmy.world 3 months ago
All the biggest disasters are remembered.
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 3 months ago
And it’s now less than one year salary because greed.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 months ago
…who’s salary? I don’t make anywhere close to 43 billion a year. What job do YOU have???
Yurgenst@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
That’s giving him too much credit, orange cats are just dumb not evil. He sucks the life of of people, encourages the spread of disease and death. He’s a mosquito. Just an annoying, insignificant bug that will only be remembered for the discomfort he caused.
uis@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I thought we always called it “radical shithole”. Not much changed. It’s just SJWs making indie gamedevs suicide were replaced with Christians making everyone else suicide.
HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 months ago
God I hate the pedo hunts, like yeah even if they find real freaks… The fact that so many who weren’t guilty had their lives ruined and in some cases ended over bullshit accusations is offensive, especially since evidence collected in an illicit manner is not admissible in court.
Lightor@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Well he did take a fairly neutral platform used to spread ideas and form movements and destroy it. So I’m sure the right and the rich are happy about that.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They are. This is the equivalent of a 19th century steel tycoon buying up newspapers all across the country. It’s an investment.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Nag, I just call it shitter when I’m bored of “Twitter”.