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You can just call it Twitter, in the same way that everyone just says Facebook rather than Meta and Google rather than Alphabet.
by 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 agoThis 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 agoAnd 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 agoI'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 agoWe 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 agoAlphabet 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 agoWhat meaning do they infer?
- swozey 3y agoThat 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?
- 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 agoStill, 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 agoShell, Ford, Coke...