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People, please, it's "ex-twitter" (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I still don't get how - with such a perfect tee-up - we settled on "X, the platform formerly known as Twitter".

Besides, imagining Musks reaction to this tickles me slightly.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I still prefer to write it “xitter” pronounced as “shitter”.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I still prefer to write "Twitter" because fuck X and Musk

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

And Spez

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I was taking that to be "zitter" like it's infected and probably should be seen by a professional otherwise it's going to leave a nasty mark.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

In Chinese pinyin x is a sh sound.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

zittler

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

You know, you may have just changed my mind

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

And there’s the issue. There are just too many good jokes to be had here.

The other half is that news organizations won’t let themselves place a joke over the appearance of objectivity, using the legally changed name of the company. The most they will do is add the parenthetical (formerly Twitter).

Journalists are wet blankets. What can you do?