Formerly Known as Twitter is too long .... FKT hit it on a few levels.
this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2023
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How about we keep calling it Twitter, because big shitty companies don't get to have the privilege of rebranding so we forget how shitty they are.
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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."
Tweets are now called "X-crement"
In short, ex-twitter?
That is long, lets acronymize it: TWFKAT, pronounced twif-cat.
Would be nice if we could call them TWATS
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I liked the idea of pronouncing it "10" like the Roman numeral. It's not necessarily incorrect, and it fucks with Elon's ego
I’ve been pronouncing it like that sound a gameshow buzzer makes when you get something wrong or run out of time.
I'm going with the Cyrillic pronunciation: Zh
Cyrillic Х is "Kh", Ж is "Zh".
Even better. Sounds like you're a little sick every time you say the name.
xXx^x^
I for one think X is a very cool name. Nice rebranding!
I'm still calling it twitter.
Keep calling it twitter.
The eXsocial media company.
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.
I prefer to "Toot" on Mastodon or "Ignore all this pointless bullshit" on Kbin
@metaStatic @CyberTaco @itsnotlupus
When I'm done with Lemmy for the day, I like to creep on my AskLemmy users from Mastodon.
Shitter?
I prefer twatter
Platform: Twatter Users: Twitterati
I have been using this for years
Just refer to it as “My X”