How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"?

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Steve@communick.news⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩

I’m genuinely curious about peoples thoughts on this.

It made sense for a while. But the branding change was 16 months ago. The URI change was 3 months ago. Everybody knows now what X is. Yet for some reason, I still see in news stories today:
“… on X — formerly known as Twitter — and said …”
I really don’t think that’s needed anymore. But I’m always one to want changes as fast and painless as possible.

So what do you think would be an appropriate amount of time to keep reminding everyone that Twitter is now X?
Months?
Years?
How many?

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xantoxis@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I keep seeing people call it “X, the Everything App” and ngl it’s funny every single time

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GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Seriously though, what is x.com and the x app? I just followed the link to google play and it seems’ish like it’s just the twitter microblog, but I’m seeing things mentioned that I didn’t think are part of twitter. I’ve never used twitter or any x products, so I’m actually in the dark.

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TheFunkyMonk@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’m in favor of calling it X because it’ll die quicker.

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T156@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I don’t think ever. Twitter has too big of a brand name and recognition, where X does not, and they’ll keep coasting on it (their emails to you still say “formerly known as Twitter”). News sites and places will keep calling it Twitter because X is too confusing of a name, and certain parts of their reader-base will simply have no idea who it is that they’re on about, and some social media will call it Twitter because X is a silly name, and they do not respect Elon Musk’s rebranding of Twitter in much the same way that he does not respect his daughter’s name or identity.

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adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
My mind keeps coming up with tag lines for X….

X:

… where the fruits of piracy can be found

… - rated best for quirky images

… where you’ll find that special someone you realized you DON’T want to spend the rest of your life with.

Anyone got more?

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adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Until the public short message service no longer exists?

This could happen in a number of ways.

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FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I dunno. but I wonder if he owns xvideos.

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SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I like X.com only because I like X-Com

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ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Just call it the X social media site

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harcesz@szmer.info ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yeah, its getting absurd by now. Maybe we should help with the rebranding a lil bit… In Polish I prefer to call it exTwitter, but in English I’d hope calling it just “formerly” will catch on.

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someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I see a lot of outlets no longer saying formerly Twitter.

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