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So far I really haven't seen anyone seriously call it just X. Most news orgs seem to resort to "X (formerly Twitter)" or similar. Some still call it Twitter, no
by zettabomb 3y ago
So far I really haven't seen anyone seriously call it just X. Most news orgs seem to resort to "X (formerly Twitter)" or similar. Some still call it Twitter, not even an acknowledgement that it's been renamed. At least Meta had the sense to just change their app splashscreens and such (e.g. Facebook by Meta). And it seems that Alphabet doesn't make any effort to make their presence known.
- rsynnott 3y ago> Most news orgs seem to resort to "X (formerly Twitter)" or similar. I mean, if nothing else, "X did [something stupid]" just looks like someone forgot to fill in a template; no-one is going to publish an article with 'X', unqualified, in it.
- tzs 3y agoX also makes search harder. I'd like to see HN add a recommendation that in headlines about X the submitter should change the X to Twitter.
- baobabKoodaa 3y agoThe thing that really bothers with me with this is why couldn't it just be "Twitter by X"? You want to make an "everything app", that's great Elon, let's call that X. Now what do we call all the mini apps inside the everything app? Oh, they're called "X", too? So you're using "X of X" to call a cab, and "X of X" to send a message, and these are different apps inside the mega app? How does this naming make sense?
- user_7832 3y agoThat would be too sensible. Sarcasm aside, they probably were hoping to convert the brand name twitter has to 'x', but failed to realize how sticky the name was/is.
- jsheard 3y agoEven X itself resorted to putting "Formerly Twitter" in its App Store and Play Store taglines after their daily installs fell off a cliff. Previously the tagline was just "Blaze your glory!" but nobody knows what that means.
- rchaud 3y agoProbably had backend developers write the marketing copy.
- foobarchu 3y agoShoot, even the Wikipedia page is still titled "Twitter"