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[-] lettruthout@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm back to calling it Twitter. (Not that I'm ever on it though.)

[-] NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

It's such a stupid name! Everytime it's mentioned, it has to be prepend or suffixed with something so people actually understand the "X" context.

And more importantly - If you visit x.com, it redirects to twitter.com! So what's the fucking point of the rebrand?

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Genius, i say! The man’s an absolute genius!

Obviously. Some people say trump should run a social media platform. More and more.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago

Until he stops allowing deadnaming on his site, I'm going to deadname his site.

[-] WaxiestSteam69@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

It's only fair.

[-] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 year ago

Xitter, but the X makes a ‘sh’ sound.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago
[-] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

To the Mayan people X makes a 'sh' sound. That's the way I pronounce it. Now and forever.

Xitter, I mean Shitter. I still pronounce the letter X normally.

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

In Portuguese, too. And most other languages from Iberia*. And "x" is typically so rare in other orthographies that, for Portuguese speakers, rendering "x" as /ʃ/ (the "sh" sound) is almost automatic, so the first time that I saw "Xitter" I couldn't stop laughing.

*with one exception: modern Spanish. And by "modern" I mean past the 17th century, because before that it was /ʃ/ in Spanish too. That's where the Maya languages got that spelling convention from.

(Sorry for the off-topic.)

This was almost entirely on topic

[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I haven't stopped calling it twatter

[-] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

What do people call a tweet in the X rebranding?

[-] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I've seen "xeet" from people outside of Twitter. Not sure what an X person would say. It's pronounced "shit" or "sheet".

[-] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone -2 points 1 year ago

I call it the x social media site

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