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

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[–] MixedRaceHumanAI@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] Achyu@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In short, ex-twitter?

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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."

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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

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

[–] mrbubblesort@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago

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

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm going with the Cyrillic pronunciation: Zh

[–] Gsus4@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Cyrillic Х is "Kh", Ж is "Zh".

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Even better. Sounds like you're a little sick every time you say the name.

[–] Cat@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That is long, lets acronymize it: TWFKAT, pronounced twif-cat.

[–] camelbeard@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Would be nice if we could call them TWATS

[–] BornOnJuly1@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

My thoughts exactly.

[–] notelonmusk@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I for one think X is a very cool name. Nice rebranding!

[–] n0m4n@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] loom_in_essence@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I'm still calling it twitter.

[–] HamSwagwich@showeq.com 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Let's just make it a symbol.

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

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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Just refer to it as “My X”

[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago
[–] CrapConnoisseur@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Can we get it to wear assless chaps while we're at it?

[–] vettnerk@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] dustojnikhummer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Platform: Twatter Users: Twitterati

I have been using this for years

[–] itsnotlupus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] TigrisMorte@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

The eXsocial media company.

[–] sunbytes@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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?

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[–] XYZinferno@lemmy.basedcount.com 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm still calling it Twitter. Always will.

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[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I'm calling it the "X-porn". :^)

[–] chon@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I never stopped calling him Prince 😂

[–] jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

🍗 (the website formerly known as Twitter)

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