It's still twitter now and always will be so it doesn't matter.
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Twitter is the only time I will ever be okay with deadnaming.
Everyone collectively agreed x is stupid and I hope spite will make sure this sentiment never changes
Almost as stupid as facebook creating a platform called threads. Zero creativity, and maxium collaboration inconvience with our language usage, plus facebook trying to stick their nose in fediverse where the whole point was to get away from their centralized metaverse BS. Facebook can fuck off.
I don't think ever. Twitter has too big of a brand name and recognition, where X does not, and they'll keep coasting on it (their emails to you still say "formerly known as Twitter"). News sites and places will keep calling it Twitter because X is too confusing of a name, and certain parts of their reader-base will simply have no idea who it is that they're on about, and some social media will call it Twitter because X is a silly name, and they do not respect Elon Musk's rebranding of Twitter in much the same way that he does not respect his daughter's name or identity.
I didn't realize their own promotional emails still reference Twitter. That's intereating.
I’ll keep calling it twitter as long as musk keeps deadnaming his daughter
So you'll call it X if he becomes a good parent?
Ha! Fat chance of that happening.
I dunno, maybe.
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Never. It will always be just "Twitter".
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
We didn't stop hearing Prince referred to as "the artist formerly known as Prince" until he changed his name from that symbol back to Prince.
I expect the same for the website formerly known as Twitter.
Forever, unless they start calling it Xcom (which would then be confused with the game) X itself could also mean Xorg (https://x.org) which is a lot older. Not to mention that it looks like someone forgot to remove a placeholder "in the site X, many people talk about..."
Twitter, formerly known as X
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.
You’re referring to the former artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince?
How long was Prince "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince"?
For about seven years, and then he went back to calling himself Prince again.
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X is just a vague term though. It's also often used as a placeholder for unknown or variable things. So the "formerly Twitter" is going to stick for quite a while.
It's like naming a product "The Thing". Anyone who talks about it will always have to clarify what Thing they are talking about basically forever.
Came to say this. X is a terrible name. It's a placeholder for so many things. Elon is so obsessed with a letter, it's wildly stupid.
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.
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.
Pretty sure it's still just twitter
Hopefully in a year or two they'll eventually just call it Twitter or maybe if we're lucky it will go out of business and then they'll probably still just call it Twitter because the X thing would then have just been a short lived portion of its overall lifespan.
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.
I think one of the reasons why we're still seeing this done 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.
I never stopped calling it Twitter and I never will. Just like Facebook will always be Facebook.
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.
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They will just call it threads. Because that's what they will use
I don't think the platform will last long enough to care. In a year or two it'll be "X, formely known an Twitter, currently remembered as Elon's clusterfuck."
Until the company is dead
im using an open source app to view calyx jabber server
edit: OHHH the name.
About six to twelve more months then people will call it X
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?
X: It's like Twitter, but it's shitter.
...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.
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