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I saw someone had a 10 year account anniversary announcement on their feed, and it said something about them having been an X user for 10 years. Of course, they
by ksaj 3y ago
I saw someone had a 10 year account anniversary announcement on their feed, and it said something about them having been an X user for 10 years. Of course, they've only been an X user for a bit less than one year. They were a Twitter user for 9 of those years. It's not that easy to rewrite history, even if you're Elon Musk.
To me, this has been the least graceful, and least sensible rebranding in the history of tech.
It doesn't help that X usually means "has been." A lot of people on Mastodon (and probably elsewhere) are quite proud of saying they are X users, meaning they no longer use that site because of what it has turned into.
- ChainOfFools 3y agoI think this situation calls for a compromise in the form of a portmanteau, one which both preserves the link from the old to the new site as well as describing the direction of the change: Xitter ( using the pronunciation of letter X to mean 'sh,' as some languages do)
- ksaj 3y agoI prefer Xcreet, which starts with X and rhymes with tweet. I don't mind Xitter, since that's where a lot of people post from. But in English, X pretty much never sounds like sh, so it's a bit of a leap. I guess some Spanish words that start with X sound like sh. In Chinese, X is used for a sound that is almost an Sh sound. It's really not very common, I think.