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[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 248 points 1 year ago

I love how everyone still calls them Facebook. It's the simple things.

[-] weedwhacking@lemmy.world 75 points 1 year ago

Nothing makes me happier than deadnaming a corporation

[-] jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 37 points 1 year ago

🍗 (The Bird Formerly Known As Twitter)

[-] Goblin_Mode@ttrpg.network 10 points 1 year ago

I dont care how long it has been or how persistent you are. It's fucking Comcast Xfinity sounds like the subtitle to a terrible Sci-fi movie from the 80s

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

"You'll always be Union Carbide to me"

[-] gotnuffin@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago

This highlights how deep the BS surrounding Musk has burrowed into the media scape. They invariably refer to his companies as "Elon Musks Tesla" or "Elon Musks Twitter" and so on. Where other billionaire's (for the most part) avoid the limelight and their companies stand seperate to their idiotic personal choices.

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago

I am Elon Musk's throbbing need for attention.

[-] Baratas@aussie.zone 31 points 1 year ago

His name is X Æ A-12 Paulsen

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

“Fucker’s settin’ up franchises”

[-] chase_what_matters@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

I say “Elon Musk’s Twitter” like would I say “Joel Schumacher’s Batman” — to identify it as the worst version of the thing.

[-] gotnuffin@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Here's his prequels

Elon Musks failed Solar City

Elon Musks failed Boring Company

Elon Musks failed Hyperloop

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately Boring and the hyperloop were wins for him. The goal was to get cities to continue using cars.

[-] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 15 points 1 year ago

Boring and Hyperloop were successful, they were meant to divert local governments from pursuing viable public transportation projects.

[-] hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Just a few more failures away from qualifying to be president of the USA.

[-] eurekaphoenix@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

Lol the tweet I found this article from referred to it as Meta. nah.

[-] gotnuffin@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

I like how you still call it a tweet. I hope tweet, tweeting and twitter remain the lexicon for X forever.

[-] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Tweet and Retweet are now Post and Repost 😭

[-] rigatti@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

It's just mindboggling. I never even used Twitter and I'm annoyed about it.

[-] Cabrio@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

More like eXcrete, and eXhibit.

[-] aeternum@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

I X'ed about it last night.

[-] LittleWizard@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

Twitter and tweeting where such well established and creative words, which set Twitter apart. I loved the analogy to birds. And Elon just throws all of that away...

[-] Onionizer@geddit.social 4 points 1 year ago

You can still toot on Mastodon at least

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Loxodon flatulence best flatulence

[-] Syrc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No no, let it change. If “””X””” loses the actually marketable and popular terminology it’s all downhill from there (like, even more than now)

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah but you posted it as Facebook. You're doing good.

[-] ares35@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

the local telephone service here has seen several owners and even more name changes in the last couple decades. i still call it by the company name it had in the 90s.

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Stadiums get like too.

Going to catch the game at the T-Moble Samsung SL17 this weekend?
Uhh

[-] Onfire@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Just like X will never replace Twitter. That was a weird rebranding tbh. Meta at least makes some sense.

[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's because Zuckerberg is actually a smart guy. He may be a prick and an asshole and possibly not human, but you really can't deny he is smart.

Musk is an immature idiot with money.

[-] Onfire@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Meta lost $40 billion in Metaverse. I wouldn't call that smart. Facebook rebranding kept Facebook as a sub product of Meta. Elon should have done the same with Twitter by keeping Twitter as a product under X.

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