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I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was. (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 month ago by lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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[–] DoctorButts@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Elon will buy Reddit next and rename it to Xit. Pronounced like...

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 month ago

You're giving him too much credit. He'll probably call it “X”, as well, grabbing some other Unicode letter, but he'll keep using the reddit.com domain. Y'know, like twitter.com.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Call it "the app formerly known as twitter". It's what the media does. It would piss off Elon, and it has a whole prince vibe to it.

[–] sircac@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Mmh... nope, don't care, my neurons has already a "twitter" thing in memory, devoting 0 additional effort in anything related to that thing

[–] AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I don't want to call it X because it's a shit shit shit name

[–] uienia@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Twitter was always bad. It is of course way worse now, but it is silly to have any nostalgic and reverential feelings for it.

[–] titter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Calling twix, or xitter! You can also call it Elon's X (he has many exes, so this one fits in)

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Xerox.

[–] xoggy@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

Best name to call it is to just not call it anything. Don't talk about it. Let it die.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

I always call it 'X, the everything app.'

[–] paladin3494@feddit.dk 1 points 1 month ago

Twitter is no worse today than five years ago. But it’s certainly also no better. The discussion about which billionaires we want manipulating public discourse is outright insanity

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago

xTwitter

[–] pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Can we start calling it Bluesky?

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Shitter

[–] BlucifersVeinyAnus@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago

Xlon’s Twitter

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This isn't a shower thought

[–] lazylion_ca@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Sure was.

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