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I don’t like the letter “x” being used as a company name, I find it impractical and confusing. I’d like to call it something different, and since many people s

• kibwen 3y ago
  You can just call it Twitter, in the same way that everyone just says Facebook rather than Meta and Google rather than Alphabet.
  • thih9 3y ago
    This is different though - Facebook wasn’t rebranded to Meta, Facebook is still the official name for Meta’s product. Meanwhile most of Twitter’s logos and other branding have been replaced.
    • kibwen 3y ago
      And yet the vast majority of humanity, who do not use Twitter and who, at best, merely know about it in passing, are not in a position to observe this rebrand and would be confused by even calling it "Twitter/X", as though that's some sort of new product under the Twitter brand. Calling it Twitter just reduces confusion.
  • EarthLaunch 3y ago
    I'm just disappointed that people go along with takeovers of useful words: x, meta, alphabet. If one was renamed "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" would people still go along with it? What's the limit?
    • thih9 3y ago
      We don’t need renames for takeovers of useful words, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_(name)#Modern_popularity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_(name)#Modern_popularity > Popularity continued to climb and Alexa was ranked in the top 100 in the mid-1990s. According to the Social Security Administration, its highest popularity, 39th, was achieved in 2006. The name's popularity decreased rapidly after Amazon picked it as the wake word of its voice service Amazon Alexa, which was released worldwide in 2016. More at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2021/people-named-alexa-name-change-amazon/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2021/p...
    • swozey 3y ago
      Alphabet is such a cringe name for a company no less. Especially with the meaning google infers. I bet they giggled like little kids in the board room that day. We're so cunning and witty! hehe!
      • 7ewis 3y ago
        What meaning do they infer?
        • swozey 3y ago
          That they're going to make a ton of stupid company names and it's their company-name umbrella dad-joke used for tax and legal purposes? We didn't just all get the memo that that's the joke?
          • edgyquant 3y ago
            Or it could be that they are obviously a front for the alphabet agencies
            • swozey 3y ago
              lmao. I would love to have been a fly on the wall "We need a new company name!" "Alphabet!" "YES EXACTLY!"
              • thih9 3y ago
                > In a 2018 talk, Schmidt disclosed that the original inspiration for the name came from the location of the then Google Hamburg office's street address: ABC-Straße. From Wikipedia about alphabet Inc
                • swozey 3y ago
                  What! Well that deflates my entire theory
    • andsoitis 3y ago
      > I'm just disappointed that people go along with takeovers of useful words: x, meta, alphabet. X is not a word.
      • pjerem 3y ago
        Still, it’s probably the most generic letter that you can use alone in a lot of domains. If you had the opportunity to buy any unique letter domain name of your choice but you may choose only one, most people on this planet would chose X because it can mean anything.
    • voytec 3y ago
      > takeovers of useful words: x, meta, alphabet Apple, Blackberry...
      • notahacker 3y ago
        Shell, Ford, Coke...
• red_trumpet 3y ago
  I think we really should adopt the name "X". Because Musk took Twitter and turned it into something else, which is not the old Twitter anymore. So giving it a different name is fitting. That said, I don't necessarily like the name "X".
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  • pjerem 3y ago
    It’s not like Twitter wasn’t a shitshow several years before Musk. Sure he made it way worse but it was already a global dumpster fire.
    • kaba0 3y ago
      There was plenty of shit there, but it was the best way to get real-time updates on big news events, as plenty official accounts used it as their primary site.
      • edgyquant 3y ago
        I don’t think this has changed much, it’s still the best place to get real time updates.
        • thih9 3y ago
          Is it? Live streaming got more popular and is supported by major platforms; discord and related communities are more accessible; the pandemic taught everyone group chats and video calls; the list goes on.
        • kaba0 3y ago
          But all the controversy around verified accounts, over-abundance of far-right wing content, etc, doesn’t help its case.