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WP --and everyone else-- should also stop calling it X, which is a ridiculous name, and go back to calling it Twitter.
by khazhoux 3y ago
WP --and everyone else-- should also stop calling it X, which is a ridiculous name, and go back to calling it Twitter.
- vesinisa 3y agoBBC seems to consistently use "X, formerly known as Twitter" throughout their publishing.
- knallfrosch 3y agoI think there's a transition period, as with Meta and Alphabet. For as long as it's all hosted on the twitter.com domain, it doesn't really make sense to abandon the name Twitter.
- madphilosopher 3y agoEx-Twitter, in other words.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- neotrope 3y agoElon should have done what Mark did. Create a parent org called X and put Twitter into it. Twitter is a great brand, I hope they revert it.
- docdeek 3y agoCompanies are allowed to change their names. If we didn’t roll with it then FANG would be something like TCKB (The Facebook, Cadabra, Kibble, BackRub).
- DrBazza 3y agoSometimes it just doesn't work. My favourite was Price Waterhouse changing their name to everyone's favourite day of the week, Monday. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2163472.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2163472.stm
- docdeek 3y agoI didn’t know about that one - and that article/obit is a great find, thanks for sharing. :) Funny thing is that Monday is now a productivity/team tool that I know a few people really like. Maybe they got a deal from PwC on the URL?
- DrBazza 3y agoIt was the peak of dotcom boom silliness. One of my friends worked there and said the company were beside themselves with glee that they’d bagged a six letter word dotcom domain name and had to use it.
- gus_massa 3y agoFacebook renamed itself as Meta. Google renamed itself as Alphabet. So it should be MANA.
- benwad 3y agoMAMAA is a more recent acronym - Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet. Updated FB/Google's names, dropped Netflix (because it's really more of a media company), and added MS.
- crote 3y agoDid they really, though? Their rebranding didn't really effect anything beyond the holding company. Facebook is still called Facebook, and the Google Pixel is still made by Google. I bet the general public has pretty much zero familiarity with the Meta / Alphabet brands. In essence it was nothing more than an attempt to misdirect public attention away from their well-known brands. See, it's Alphabet doing a bad thing - they are totally different from Google!
- theandrewbailey 3y agoF*** the MMAAAN: Meta Microsoft Alphabet Apple Amazon Netflix
- rsynnott 3y agoWhile they are, everyone else is allowed to ignore them doing this, particularly when it's silly. For instance, there was a period of about 18 months in the early noughties when the Royal Mail (the UK post office) changed its name to Consignia. Everyone sensibly ignored this, and they quietly changed it back. The first few years of this century were _weird_.
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoI heard one of the people responsible for the Consignia branding change talking about how the drama was entirely a media fiction, and found him convincing. The basic gist was "The Post Office" and "Royal Mail" brand were not going anywhere. "Consignia" was a brand intended for Europe (and indeed worldwide) cargo, logistics and transport parts of the business where those existing names were ill-suited (e.g. other countries have royals too). But you get enough misleading media stories and you're forced to roll back things you were never intending to do in the first place. A victory for common sense, it was not. edit: apparently the parent company is now called "International Distributions Services plc" which is super generic. Contemporary news article covering this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2002480.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2002480.stm
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- ianlevesque 3y agoI rather like X. It immediately reminds everyone about the midlife crisis that both the service and its new owner are publicly going through.
- pram 3y agoElon Musk’s Personal Blog, sometimes called X
- ChatGTP 3y agoSame I like it because it sucks and I think it’s great fun to laugh at the fact Elon thinks it’s cool.
- khazhoux 3y agoIt'd be funner (and would annoy Elon) if everyone didn't go along with it.
- mey 3y agoI go with more of a Prince vibe, the website formerly known as Twitter.
- ianburrell 3y agoI think we should use the nickname Musk’s Folly.
- NikkiA 3y agoXanadu fits, IMO https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu_(Citizen_Kane)#Cultural_influence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu_(Citizen_Kane)#Cultural...
- The_Colonel 3y agoI "like" Xitter. Somehow sounds fitting.
- hnburnsy 3y ago> WP --and everyone else-- should also stop calling it X, which is a ridiculous name, and go back to calling it Twitter. I think people get cancelled when you don't use the name they wish to be called. That would be ironic.