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Ditto. When I clicked on the article, it was an "oh yeah, that makes more sense" moment, but I certainly don't feel stupid for making the mistake. The Twitter -
by torgoguys 2y ago
Ditto. When I clicked on the article, it was an "oh yeah, that makes more sense" moment, but I certainly don't feel stupid for making the mistake. The Twitter -> X is terrible. I hearby rebrand it to "Wasteland." That sometimes feels like an appropriate name and at least there's a couple of letters difference between that and Wayland.
- aaronbrethorst 2y agoXitter, with a “sh” sound for the X
- cduzz 2y agoI typically use term / emoji "eggs" when referring to the zombified husk formerly known as twitter. "It's gotten hard to read eggs without an account these days" or "ever since they got rid of content moderation eggs really smells." or "did you see that egg Musk dropped last week?"
- tombert 2y agoI never got into Twitter to begin with, so to me it wasn't a huge loss to see it fall apart, but I have to admit that the branding of Twitter was way better than "X". "Tweet" very quickly became part of the English lexicon, people knew what it was almost unanimously (in no small due to one controversial politician), and Elon decided to throw that away, presumably because "X is a cool letter". Even Mastodon (which I got slightly more into) has realized how important having specific branding is to a platform like this, and uses the word "toot" instead of the generic "post".
- Aardwolf 2y agoSo what's the verb for the "X" platform then? Just "to X"?
- tombert 2y agoI think it's just called "posting" now. Which is accurate but boring.
- gpderetta 2y agoXitting. Pronounce it however you prefer.
- tentacleuno 2y agoFor some reason, whenever I see the term "Xitter", my mind always parses it as "shitter". How do you pronounce it?
- gpderetta 2y ago"The social network formerly known as Twitter". At least when in polite company.
- meiraleal 2y agoXweet
- oneshtein 2y agoJut aXe the tweet for eX-friends.
- Corvus 2y agoXcrete