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As an aside remark, it's really funny how everyone has to elaborate what the fuck they're talking about when they talk about Twitter.
could have just been written as
but the epic genius elon decided to destroy all brand recognition. Truly incredible thing to witness. Twitter literally got its own branded terms into common lexicon and he just set it all on fire.
Or we all could just still call it twitter and tweets, and be done with it
I propose we just stop talking about it altogether.
No, It's called X now. Elon willed it so, and I'm happy to oblige. Posts are called X-cretions (or X-crement, if they are shitposts).
Well, he is allegedly fond of the poop emoji.
Like we call meta Facebook and alphabet google. 💁🏻♀️
Facebook is still Facebook and Google is still Google, and they're owned by Meta and Alphabet, unlike X
What Google/Facebook did, while a little silly, at least makes some sense because they're segregating the product from the megacorp that owns the product. They maintain the benefits of having consistent branding while also separating out their corporate interests under a new name. In Google's case, Google still exists as a subsidiary of Alphabet, while in Facebook's case Facebook is not a separate company anymore but it still exists as just one of the platforms that Meta operates.
With X, the product itself was renamed, and in so doing the branding was destroyed. There's no good reason to do this as far as I can tell.
No no, it's not 'a tweet ' anymore, it's 'an X(, formerly known as a tweet)'
"In an X(formerly known as a tweet) on X(formerly known as Twitter) ..."
It just rolls off the tongue!
Real "Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim" energy
The first X is pronounced Æsh
The current branding gives more a placeholder asset feeling than a memorable identity. Sorry the twitter logo isn't loading so we'll show you an "X" in the meantime
I thought it was xeets
xcretes
Why read X posts when you can watch X videos
"In a xweet (...)"
“In a xhit (…)”
I prefer "xeet"
On some news stories I've been seeing them refer to it as "the social media company X"
@fadingembers
So the company x social that existed before the muskrat bought twitter then, right?
@GnuLinuxDude
They could just keep calling tweet, or tweet on X, maybe they just keep this shit to show how stupid the change is...
"in a recent Twix.."