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SaraTonin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• NecroticEuphoria@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I still call it Twitter regularly.

  To me, X is a windowing system.

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  • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wayland, formerly known as Twitter

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    • HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Weyland–Yutani

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  • realitista@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Xitter is the proper rebrand.

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    • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      yeah i would be calling it twitter if not for xitter.

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  • wabafee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    X reminds me of a porn site and the X itself kinda associated for me as X rated.

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    • db2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s why though. He’s incredibly immature.

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    • ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      muskrat loves his x-rated shit publicly visible to everyone

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  • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To me, X gon give it to ya

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  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And x.com is a place people should only go late at night, when they are alone.

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  • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I call it “Exxx, the everything app” sarcastically like Liz from TrueAnon does. I never used Twitter but I just find it funny to call it that.

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• Klowner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That dumbass throwing away the Twitter brand for a damn letter should be proof enough to anyone that he’s a moron

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  • Jack_Burton@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It blew my mind when he announced it. Brand recognition is one of the most important things companies hope for, and Twitter was in it’s own, very select brand recognition club at the top. Tweeting became part of everyday vernacular, in the same way that googling something became synonomous with searching online. It’s a company’s wet dream. No one says “gramming”, “threading”, “facebooking”, etc. Maybe Snapchat has snapping, I’m out of the loop but even I’ve used tweeting/ed in every day conversations.

    That recognition is the stupidest thing to just throw away, especially to replace it with something that can’t replace it from a language perspective. Xing makes no sense in context.

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    • Klear@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s been two years and it’s still going, despite the name change, or, you know, the owner throwing a nazi salute on live television.

      It doesn’t seem like the branding was as important as everybody seems to think, or any negative impact was offset by it staying on the news, good or bad, constantly.

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• tja@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But I also still call it Facebook and Google

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  • perspectiveshifting@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Those are changes in parent company names though while the services Facebook and Google still exist. The rebrand of Twitter to X continuing to not stick for people is a much bigger failure on their part than Meta and Alphabet not entering the general zeitgeist.

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• Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Even Grok AI follows up with that reminder when it mentions X.

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