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[-] Rockyrikoko@lemm.ee 75 points 1 year ago

I'm partial to calling it Xitter, pronounced shitter

[-] over_clox@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

And Tweets are now called Xits. 👍

[-] variants@possumpat.io 24 points 1 year ago
[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

Mastodon was way ahead of the trend when they decided to call the messages toots.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago

Nope. It's Twitter. It will continue to be Twitter. I will not cater to the whims of billionaires.

The website is Twitter.

The company is Facebook.

The rapper is Kanye West.

[-] TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Wait, is Kanye going by something else now?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

Yes, he wants to be called Ye. Fuck him.

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

Well that's...something...

[-] SPOOSER@lemmy.today 7 points 1 year ago

The more fitting name I've seen him called is Yittler

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

This isn't how I have imagined the internet aging gracefully.

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

The internet service provider is Cingular.

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

Make them chocolate bars

[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

Such a fail that the website is still literally Twitter.com.

[-] Redb34rd@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

I mean it was the same with Meta and we still call it Facebook to this day. Renaming a brand just doesn't work, when it's already established...

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

Facebook the service is still Facebook, the company that runs it is called meta

[-] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago

Yes, I feel like all these Big Tech companies changed the parent company name (Facebook -> Meta, Google -> Alphabet) to confuse end users when they read news about how they harvest our data don't respect our privacy: the news talk about a big company spying on users, users know a few app names and most don't link both together

[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 13 points 1 year ago

its also about shuffling financial liabilities around, ya know, so businesses can avoid paying for stuff. corporate welfare

[-] EddieTee77@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago
[-] over_clox@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Yet Lizard Man is still called Lizard Man, go figure..

Xfinity will always be Comcast to me. Not sure why they tried to rebrand.

[-] ericisshort@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They tried to rebrand because they had an incredibly low customer satisfaction rating associated with Comcast (I wonder why?). I worked for that horrible company during the rebrand and they told us as much. It actually did end up positively affecting consumer opinion (because people are morons), so much so that Time Warner Cable and Cablevision followed suit a few years later rebranding their services respectively to Spectrum and Optimum.

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

In a weird way, some Zuckerberg haters love calling it Meta because that more closely evokes the enbarassing metaverse / VR crap they’ve been so into. Facebook was an incredibly successful website but Meta is a joke.

[-] ChlorineAddict@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

I’ve been going with “The Social Media Platform Formerly Known as Twitter”.

[-] wellnowletssee@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago

So TSMPFKaT? That’s catchy!

[-] teegus@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

TSMPFKaT could be the new WUPHF

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 year ago

The new name of Twitter is X, just like Elon calls all the women in his life

[-] csolisr@communities.azkware.net 15 points 1 year ago

And don't forget the full name would be "X, formerly known as Twitter, formerly known as twttr" https://logos-world.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Twitter-Logo-History.jpg

[-] rocky1138@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

The new name of Twitter is irrelevant

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

It's funny, our news outlet calls it exactly that. They used to say "according to police on Twitter" but now they write "according to police on X, formerly known as Twitter".

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

"The artist formerly known as Prince"

[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

I always say "The social media formerly known as Twitter"

[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago
[-] Dkarma@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Mf space Karen thinks he can prince his way out of this mess...

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago

I prefer "worse mastodon"

this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2023
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