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I get a kick out of how the link in this story is "twitter.com" instead of "x.com". Personally, I think everyone should just continue to say "Twitter."
by gwbas1c 2y ago
I get a kick out of how the link in this story is "twitter.com" instead of "x.com".
Personally, I think everyone should just continue to say "Twitter."
- mtmail 2y agoI think Hackernews changes the link to twitter.com after submission to avoid duplicates.
- bigstrat2003 2y agoI do and I always will. I refuse to play along with corporate rebrands, be it Twitter, Facebook, Comcast, Charter or anything else.
- dbreunig 2y agoDon't forget Blackwater!
- fallingknife 2y agoBut you already are just by saying those names
- parkaboy 2y ago*you mean "The Facebook" ;)
- IMTDb 2y agoFYI; Comcast is a corporate rebrand of American Cable Systems
- tenpies 2y agoI enjoyed reading your post on Startup News. ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News#History
- gwbas1c 2y agoI'm not that stuck in the mud. However, naming something "X" is just stupid. (Unless it's an owl in a popular children's show.)
- throw_pm23 2y agoAnd Facebook instead of Meta, although if I think of it, I'd rather not say any of those in any context.
- paxys 2y agoFacebook is a product, Meta is a company. It was always weird to say Facebook in the context of Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus etc. Heck who even uses Facebook now?
- throw_pm23 2y agoYeah, I call the company Facebook, I don't care enough to follow their terminology, and I don't keep track of their products.
- bag_boy 2y agoPeople who use marketplace
- dvh 2y agoThe best way is IMHO to say "social media" that way you're not promoting either
- SV_BubbleTime 2y agoI really try to not use Google as a verb.
- ben0x539 2y agoHuh, why?
- lightlyused 2y agoPersonally, don't use it at all. Worst social media platform IMO.
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- tomcam 2y ago> Personally, I think everyone should just continue to say "Twitter." Because…?
- tzs 2y agoI also continue to say Twitter and prefer others to also do so because X is a terrible name to search for. It has too many common uses besides as the new name for Twitter so there are way too many false positives. For example let's say you want to see all the times you've mentioned that site in your HN comment history. If you search for "author:tomcam twitter" in the search thingy at the bottom of most HN pages it turns up 34 comments and it looks like all of them are actually about that site or contained links to content on that site. Change that to "author:tomcam x" and there are 13 comments. Only 4 of those are using X to mean Twitter. The x in the others come from OS-X, X-rated (in two comments), 2796 x 1290, x.into(), X.js, X-Files (in two comments), 4 x 8.
- nickthegreek 2y agoBecause I'm not about to hand over one of the 26 essential letters of our alphabet to corporate whims. "Twitter" emerged as a fresh term because people embraced it—not because a billionaire decreed it. Whether it's naming a service or renaming a gulf , words—and especially their letters—belong to the public, not to the power of a few billionaires..
- outer_web 2y ago'X' is cumbersome. Everybody knows what you're talking about when you say Twitter.