Instead of "X", how about we all call it "the website formerly known as Twitter" from now on?

CyberTaco@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 505 points –

Worked great when the artist formerly known as Prince changed his name to a symbol.

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How about we just stop mentioning it at all?

This, I'm so sick of "I want to hurt something... so I'm going to continually talk about it".

It's the worst in games, because all it does is get more people to talk/know/hear about a game. Cyberpunk 2077 was a bad launch, instead of just harping on that, I wish every post was "Instead of Cyberpunk 2077, I'm playing X game and it's amazing" Get people interested in something else... and in general stop talking about this shit.

Yep, this is exactly the kind of worthless post that started making reddit unbearable years ago.

Can we please not immediately ruin this new platform with this shit so soon?

Well, you can block me if you are so upset by the quality of my statements...

Why bring up R?

Why are so many posts here bitching/commenting about other sites?

So many posts here sound like someone after a breakup trying to prove to the word just how over their ex they are...but refuse to talk about anything else.

I was talking about OP.

In particular, it's low effort, attempting to be funny/snarky about about a pop culture or political news item, usually stolen from somewhere else and posted to the wrong community (why is this on asklemmy?), but it gets attention because it panders to the majority of the user base.

This is a better explanation and should be with your original complaint. It really fleshes it out.

Considering we still constantly talk about reddit... no it's already been ruined.

3 more...

Nah. Prince changed his name to stick it to the record label that was fucking him over. That was his livelihood at stake.

No one needs Twitter. I don't even have an account.

And Prince was so good we would listen to his new stuff no matter what he called himself.

I prefer "the ex social media platform"

I like calling it "ten". I don't think Musk would like it, so that is what I will call it.

I'm still calling it Twitter. Always will.

Yep. That website is Twitter and that rapper is Kanye West. I refuse to kowtow to the whims of the ultra-wealthy.

Kanye goes by something else? You know what, I still don't care. Nevermind.

I just call it the "I stopped caring about that site a long time ago" site.

Who fucking cares? How about we just don't mention that piece of garbage.

I’ll continue to refer to it the way I do now, which is to not refer to it at all.

The amount of posts about Twitter and Musk are flat out disturbing...

We got "#Birdsite" on Mastodon for ages, seems fitting to just continue with that to me! ;)

Just call it Twitter. They're going to either go back to the old branding, or they'll be out of business shortly enough that it wouldn't even make sense to bother referring to it as X.

It's Twitter.

just call it "Ten" like roman numerals

I will just keep calling it Twitter just like I still say Hotmail.

I still say hotmail. I still have a hotmail account...

I kind of like Xwitter, since the X almost looks like a sideways T, almost like it's gone into disrepair and fallen over, like a billionaire idiot had stopped paying the bills or was sabotaging it with his incompetence.

Alternative suggestion: just let the shot crash and burn and don't spend your time on an alternative platform obsessing about a different platform. Same for reddit.

It really doesn't make this platform better.

I prefer the name Null, just ignore it and move on...

On that note, I suggest we rename Reddit to Fuckit

Or Lettit.

This can be derived in two ways:

  • The german way: reddit -> readit -> lases -> lasses -> letit -> lettit
  • The asian way. (sorry)

Reddit Was Fun (until spez der hurensohn ruined it).

I call it Larry.

This was the name used for the Twitter bird from 2010 to 2012 before redesigning it into what we had before 𝕏.

I am going to call it twatter just to make people have a moment of "wait did he say what I think he said or did I mishear him?"

Formerly Known as Twitter is too long .... FKT hit it on a few levels.

FKT reads like “fuck it” to me, which I completely resonate with

I say just let it continue to lose its brand value by muddying the waters.

No, because that would imply Musk and Twitter is on the same level as TAFKA Prince.

Plus, Prince did it to get out of a shitty record contract, musk did it because he's stuck at age 11 emotionally.

So does a "tweet" become a "message/action formerly known as a tweet?" That's gonna get tiresome reeeeeal fast.

I love it.

"I was on the website formerly known as Twitter and I read this really funny message formerly known as a tweet about how Elon Musk is totally botching the website formerly known as Twitter. I totally action formerly known as retweeted it."

I liked the idea of pronouncing it "10" like the Roman numeral. It's not necessarily incorrect, and it fucks with Elon's ego

I’ve been pronouncing it like that sound a gameshow buzzer makes when you get something wrong or run out of time.

How about we keep calling it Twitter, because big shitty companies don't get to have the privilege of rebranding so we forget how shitty they are.

Except they do, and they do it all the time.

  • Comcast / Spectrum
  • Century Link / Lumen

Just two glaring examples. There's tons more out there.

They only get away with it because it's easier to let them. But if we collectively refuse to acknowledge it then the rebranding tactic will no longer be valid.

Oh I agree. It gets more difficult over time though, as more people begin to only know the entity by the new name. I'm not a Twitter user so I really don't care about the new "X" name, but I still know and will forever know that Spectrum is Comcast and Lumen is Century Link, because I care deeply about the bullshit they are about. And will I continue to remember Twitter for what it is no matter the name they decide to go by. I was mainly pointing out that they do in fact have the right in the law to rebrand, to put a thin veil over their previous mishaps.

Let's just make it a symbol.

I propose two lines on top of each other on the diagonal.

Elon finds your idea intriguing, but, hear him out- what if we made those lines perpendicular, and then added another line at each end at a 90-degree angle?

Nah, it needs to be 7 red lines. All of them strictly perpendicular; some with green ink and some with transparent. Can you do that?

I've been having fun writing a dumb userscript to help me cope with this.

Yes, it can put back a bird of your choosing as a logo, but why stop there.

Instead of tweeting on Twitter, I can now spez on Reddit, skeet on Bluesky, or just eXecrate on X, the Elon way.

It's ridiculous and pointless, and I'm not sorry.

Some publications often do this. At least on Reuteres, as well as other news sites, I've seen that Twitter/X is now referred to as "X, formerly Twitter", probably to avoid confusion.

But "the website formerly known as Twitter" is just too lengthy for everyday conversation. I just call it Twitter, everyone knows what it means

Y'know, they changed the name of an avenue nearby my childhood house from a single word name to the name of an obscure politician. This happened 30 years ago. People in the city still refer to it as it's old name so much that they might not even know the current name.

Just because he has money, doesn't mean he gets to tell you what things are called.

They changed the name of the millennium dome in London to "the 02 Arena".

I'm not letting you pay someone else for me to say your (unrelated) brand's name in private conversation.

If Verizon sponsored the Whitehouse and said "it's called the Verizon Democracy Centre" now, what would you call it?

Completely agree. Pisses me off when people refer to a football league by its' sponsored name.

I never stopped calling him Prince 😂

Personally I call it "Gone, but not forgotten"

What are we talking about?

Twitter the over-rated bullshit that got bought by Elon Musk who basically took it outback with a rifle and....

Oh wait a second, I see what you're doing.