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I'm genuinely curious about peoples thoughts on this.

It made sense for a while. But the branding change was 16 months ago. The URI change was 3 months ago. Everybody knows now what X is. Yet for some reason, I still see in news stories today:
"... on X — formerly known as Twitter — and said ..."
I really don't think that's needed anymore. But I'm always one to want changes as fast and painless as possible.

So what do you think would be an appropriate amount of time to keep reminding everyone that Twitter is now X?
Months?
Years?
How many?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Twitter is the only time I will ever be okay with deadnaming.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago

Without another name change, I don't think that phrase will ever go away, for the simple fact that X as a name is too short and nondescript. In speech, X could refer to a someone you broke up with, or it could just be the beginning of another word, serving as a prefix. In text, it could refer to the actual letter itself, or the close button on a window, or a placeholder, or something NSFW.

There's simply too many ways that X can be interpreted that even if people associate Twitter with X, people will still specify "formerly Twitter" just to avoid confusion

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

I think one of the reasons why we're still seeing this dome by journalists is because Elon's takeover is probably relevant to whatever it is they're reporting. I've definitely seen articles just refer to it as "X". But whenever it's a story about some crazy racist shit someone said or how poorly their advertising business is doing, it's "formerly Twitter".

That said, I think online people who aren't writing for news outlets and aren't insane will — for the most part — always call it Twitter out of spite until the site either dies or Musk sells it and it changes back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

They will just call it threads. Because that's what they will use

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I’ll keep calling it twitter as long as musk keeps deadnaming his daughter

[–] [email protected] 1 points 45 minutes ago

Which daughter, what's the source for that?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

I think it will take a whole generation to die off before that happens, because X just isn't significant enough as a word. You can't say "I saw it on X" and have people understand you. You can't say I exed, people still continue saying "I tweeted". "I posted on X" is simply inferior.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago

I never stopped calling it Twitter and I never will. Just like Facebook will always be Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

They really shouldn't be allowed to name anything after a single letter. VW, BMW, ABC, TBS are all bad enough. X conflicts with too many established uses.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

None of those brands you mention are letters. They mean things, and in fact started by being called those things, but people organically shortened their names. Stress on organically. X as a name is trying so hard to sound cool and futuristic that people felt forced to adopt it, and instantly hated it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

How long was Prince "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince"?

Yeah, the rest of his life.

Twitter probably will have the same laid upon it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

You’re referring to the former artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Until the company is dead

[–] [email protected] 60 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I never stopped calling it Twitter. X is a window manager, a letter of the alphabet, or the most algebraic variable name. It's not a name for a company.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

It's just twitter and a zoom clone right?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 hours ago

Pretty sure it's still just twitter

[–] [email protected] 51 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

As long as it makes Musk mad 😂

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

I think it might be this. A lot of traditional media outlets are mad about twitter becoming such a necessity for them. The old guard is mad that they have to cater to this bullshit online platform. The new guard is mad at the fact that the best outlet for breaking online news is suddenly owned and operated by a fascist.

All of them want to say that x is bullshit, but they don't want to actually lose the clicks/ market share that comes with it. So they keep passive-aggressively calling it twitter.

Drunkenly thinking about it, this is kinda like calling a trans person by their dead name. Except it's insulting a shitty company led by a shithead, so I'm cool with it.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Forever, because X looks like a placeholder and media wants to be clear so they use the name that people actually associate with that trash website. It will never just be X because it is a terrible name for a business.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Also shitter, xitter, shitler.

That dumbfuck tryin so hard is so funny though...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 35 minutes ago* (last edited 35 minutes ago) (1 children)

Is he trying to look like the letter "X"?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 33 minutes ago* (last edited 21 minutes ago)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

Comcast introduced the "Xfinity" branding in 2010. I still call refer to it as "Comcast". Any conversation I have where an ISP comes up, the word "Comcast" is used. If someone says "Xfinity", they often follow it up with "you know, Comcast".

Now that's a VERY clear brand change.

The name "X" is a VERY confusing brand change. It will likely be called Twitter forever. In fact at some point Musk will sell or give up on "X" and I guarantee within a year the new owner will change the name back to Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 hours ago

I'm pretty sure that "x, formerly known as twitter" is the name of the company. So... forever.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 hours ago

I think, the main problem is that "X" doesn't look like a name.

When someone's not starkly aware of the platform being called that, they might think the author typoed.
Or is using it like the idiom "they posted it to X, Y and Z" (so just a nondescript set of platforms).
Or genuinely means the letter X and that just doesn't make sense in the context presented.

"X, formerly Twitter" is just a better name than "X", because it is recognizable.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 hours ago

It will always be Twitter to me. X is a variable in a math problem... not a company name. Oh, I'm also lazy and have never used Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 hours ago

Hopefully until the platform dies

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Xitter has quite the ring to it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 hours ago

In my headcanon, Twitter users were called twits, so Xitter users are called xits, pronounced appropriately.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

When I see "Xitter", I think it might be pronounced Exeter, like the town in southwest England. But that feels like an undeserved slight against the good people of Devon and England.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

i pronounce it like Xi, like zhitter, or just shitter

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago

It will always be Twitter to me

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

Until the public short message service no longer exists?

This could happen in a number of ways.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

The next gen is gonna be making fun of Gen Z by saying "formally Twitter" and Millennials are finally going to win.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

It'll be the first win we ever had. We damn sure aren't winning in the housing market.

Hey, millenials. Show of hands, who has a house???

See, millenials HAVE hands. You just don't see them, because none of us have houses.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Only allowed to use it when wearing a penguin suit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

It is happening. If you look for news of, e.g. "Arnold Schwarzenegger endorses Harris", most outlets just say 'X'.

In my results, The Guardian, the BBC, The Independent, Fortune, MSNBC, The Washington Post and The Hill just used 'X'. Politico said 'on social media'. Only Forbes did the 'formerly Twitter' thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

My mind keeps coming up with tag lines for X….

X:

… where the fruits of piracy can be found

… - rated best for quirky images

… where you’ll find that special someone you realized you DON’T want to spend the rest of your life with.

Anyone got more?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

...the best coffee shop for nazis. ...a modern dating app for the ugliest humanity has to offer. ...bro! ...this is what happens when you abuse ketamine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 hours ago

I keep seeing people call it "X, the Everything App" and ngl it's funny every single time

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

I have been mentally keeping track how often I see "formerly Twitter" and I'm surprised that it's lasted this long tbh

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

I’m in favor of calling it X because it’ll die quicker.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Seriously though, what is x.com and the x app? I just followed the link to google play and it seems'ish like it's just the twitter microblog, but I'm seeing things mentioned that I didn't think are part of twitter. I've never used twitter or any x products, so I'm actually in the dark.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

I like X.com only because I like X-Com

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

I see a lot of outlets no longer saying formerly Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

I dunno. but I wonder if he owns xvideos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Just call it the X social media site