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or maybe eX-twitter

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[–] snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world 102 points 2 years ago

How about we ghost it until it becomes irrelevant instead.

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 89 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How about just STOP TALKING ABOUT IT.

[–] sour@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No need to be sour about it.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 58 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.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 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.

[–] Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 41 points 2 years ago

Call it nothing and let it die

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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

[–] SkepticalButOpenMinded@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] totallynotarobot@lemmy.world 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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[–] lwuy9v5@lemmy.world 33 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

[–] MyUnclesSecret@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago

Could just stop talking about it all together.

[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 32 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Album@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

brb posting a Xeet real quick.

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[–] kubok@kbin.social 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

Corporations don’t get to have deadnames

[–] PissinSelfNdriveway@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] phillaholic@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Hardeehar@lemm.ee 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 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?"

[–] acutfjg 22 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

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

Crazy, I know!

[–] KrimsonBun@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] Decimit@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago

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

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 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".

[–] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 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

[–] AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 5 points 2 years ago

Which hopefully comes soon

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 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.

[–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's Xitter (shitter) and nothing else.

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[–] ganksy@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

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

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 12 points 2 years ago

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

[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 11 points 2 years ago

I'm cool with just never calling it.

[–] LeftHandedWave@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

I think we should call it "Ten".

[–] jadegear@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

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

[–] sheilzy@lemmy.world 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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[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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.

[–] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Anything is fine as long as we call tweets xcrements

[–] DoruDoLasu@lemmy.world 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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[–] Licherally@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] tabular@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Or twitter, for short

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[–] Minarble@aussie.zone 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m still sticking with calling it “Y”

[–] unreachable@lemmy.my.id 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 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.

[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

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

[–] lorez@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Too lazy to do that.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Just call it X. If nobody understands what you are talking about, consider it a positive.

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