They really shouldn't be allowed to name anything after a single letter. VW, BMW, ABC, TBS are all bad enough. X conflicts with too many established uses.
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I never stopped calling it Twitter and I never will. Just like Facebook will always be Facebook.
Comcast introduced the "Xfinity" branding in 2010. I still call refer to it as "Comcast". Any conversation I have where an ISP comes up, the word "Comcast" is used. If someone says "Xfinity", they often follow it up with "you know, Comcast".
Now that's a VERY clear brand change.
The name "X" is a VERY confusing brand change. It will likely be called Twitter forever. In fact at some point Musk will sell or give up on "X" and I guarantee within a year the new owner will change the name back to Twitter.
How long was Prince "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince"?
Yeah, the rest of his life.
Twitter probably will have the same laid upon it.
You’re referring to the former artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince?
Pretty sure it's still just twitter
I never stopped calling it Twitter. X is a window manager, a letter of the alphabet, or the most algebraic variable name. It's not a name for a company.
tHe EvErYtHiNg aPp!!!11
It's just twitter and a zoom clone right?
I'm pretty sure that "x, formerly known as twitter" is the name of the company. So... forever.
As long as it makes Musk mad 😂
I think it might be this. A lot of traditional media outlets are mad about twitter becoming such a necessity for them. The old guard is mad that they have to cater to this bullshit online platform. The new guard is mad at the fact that the best outlet for breaking online news is suddenly owned and operated by a fascist.
All of them want to say that x is bullshit, but they don't want to actually lose the clicks/ market share that comes with it. So they keep passive-aggressively calling it twitter.
Drunkenly thinking about it, this is kinda like calling a trans person by their dead name. Except it's insulting a shitty company led by a shithead, so I'm cool with it.
Forever, because X looks like a placeholder and media wants to be clear so they use the name that people actually associate with that trash website. It will never just be X because it is a terrible name for a business.
I think, the main problem is that "X" doesn't look like a name.
When someone's not starkly aware of the platform being called that, they might think the author typoed.
Or is using it like the idiom "they posted it to X, Y and Z" (so just a nondescript set of platforms).
Or genuinely means the letter X and that just doesn't make sense in the context presented.
"X, formerly Twitter" is just a better name than "X", because it is recognizable.
Hopefully until the platform dies
It will always be Twitter to me. X is a variable in a math problem... not a company name. Oh, I'm also lazy and have never used Twitter.
Xitter has quite the ring to it.
In my headcanon, Twitter users were called twits, so Xitter users are called xits, pronounced appropriately.
When I see "Xitter", I think it might be pronounced Exeter, like the town in southwest England. But that feels like an undeserved slight against the good people of Devon and England.
i pronounce it like Xi, like zhitter, or just shitter
Until the public short message service no longer exists?
This could happen in a number of ways.
It will always be Twitter to me
The next gen is gonna be making fun of Gen Z by saying "formally Twitter" and Millennials are finally going to win.
Only allowed to use it when wearing a penguin suit.
It'll be the first win we ever had. We damn sure aren't winning in the housing market.
Hey, millenials. Show of hands, who has a house???
See, millenials HAVE hands. You just don't see them, because none of us have houses.
My mind keeps coming up with tag lines for X….
X:
… where the fruits of piracy can be found
… - rated best for quirky images
… where you’ll find that special someone you realized you DON’T want to spend the rest of your life with.
Anyone got more?
...the best coffee shop for nazis. ...a modern dating app for the ugliest humanity has to offer. ...bro! ...this is what happens when you abuse ketamine.
It is happening. If you look for news of, e.g. "Arnold Schwarzenegger endorses Harris", most outlets just say 'X'.
In my results, The Guardian, the BBC, The Independent, Fortune, MSNBC, The Washington Post and The Hill just used 'X'. Politico said 'on social media'. Only Forbes did the 'formerly Twitter' thing.
I keep seeing people call it "X, the Everything App" and ngl it's funny every single time
I have been mentally keeping track how often I see "formerly Twitter" and I'm surprised that it's lasted this long tbh
Seriously though, what is x.com and the x app? I just followed the link to google play and it seems'ish like it's just the twitter microblog, but I'm seeing things mentioned that I didn't think are part of twitter. I've never used twitter or any x products, so I'm actually in the dark.
I’m in favor of calling it X because it’ll die quicker.
I dunno. but I wonder if he owns xvideos.
I like X.com only because I like X-Com
I see a lot of outlets no longer saying formerly Twitter.
Just call it the X social media site