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I only realized this post wasn't about Twitter when I reached the end.
by xwowsersx 2y ago
I only realized this post wasn't about Twitter when I reached the end.
- pohl 2y agoThe rebranding from Twitter to X, then, has been more successful than anticipated. It should have been X Windows that one mistook the topic for.
- pxc 2y agoX11 is indeed what I first thought this was about.
- GaggiX 2y agoIf you know Twitter already or it's like the opposite.
- marcosdumay 2y agoI guess people stopped associating "X11" with "slow" at some point in the early 00s.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- amaccuish 2y agoIs the post not deliberately ambiguous for humorous effect?
- yuliyp 2y agoWhat did you think after the first two sentences?
- GeorgeTirebiter 2y agoMe too. I'm not sure I would have clicked if the tagline weren't, effectively, clickbait.
- beretguy 2y agoNuh, elon screwed it up for everybody
- userbinator 2y agoMe too. It makes very general points but it could apply to Twitter, which is IMHO what makes this so ambiguous. The fact that X is actually slower than I think it could be (remember the "light" version that didn't need JS at all?) adds to that ambiguity.
- neilv 2y agoI'm just going to keep calling it Twitter. Usually, I will call people however they preferred to be called, even when it seems silly. But renaming Twitter to "X" crosses the line of confusing. I'm not sure it should've been allowed.
- inquirerGeneral 2y ago[dead]
- isodev 2y agoSame, I kept thinking "Are there really that many people still on Twitter to make it slow or do they just lack funding for infra".