For the same reason I still called Alphabet - Google, and Meta - Facebook. I refuse to let large corporations just try and shake off their shitty past with a name change.
this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2024
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Adding Xfinity - Comcast to this list
See also:
- Constellis Holdings, née Academi, née Xe Services, née Blackwater (mercenary group owned by right-wing politicians)
- Altria, née Philip Morris (tobacco manufacturer)
- CoreCivic, née Corrections Corporation of America (private prison operator)
- Chiquita, née United Fruit Company and Cuyamel Fruit Company (overthrew the government of Honduras, among other things)
Having fallen in love with Carmen Miranda before reading La United Fruit Company stilllll sucks.
Also add Blackwater to this list. Warcrimes and looting by American plutocratic mercenaries and now their name is not obviously pronounceable. They did an amazingly good [bad for everyone but them] rename.
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I honestly think ‘X’ has more stink on it than ‘Twitter’ which is why I’ve been happy to start referring to it as ‘X’.
I don’t think continuing to call it ‘Twitter’ hurts Elon one bit.
No, but it makes us feel like we're contributing to the conversation.
Didn't the Alphabet rebranding happen because boomer investors were confused about which Google stock to invest in?
Theirs actually made a bit more sense. They didn't try to actually get people to use the new name, because it was a business restructure, not a "brand" restructure.
For business management purposes, it didn't make sense for a search engine company to do things like "own a car company". So they split the business units up and made things a little more organized. They ran into some name issues because the most recognizable face of the company is so strongly associated with search, and they didn't want to mess with that, so they made a new name for the top.
Companies do stuff like that all the time, but it usually doesn't raise to public attention because it doesn't happen to major brands, or hit the top level of the business.
They still label all their stuff Google, and their stock ticker is still googl.
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That site is as dead as Reddit to me now. I don't care whatever it's called
Only as dead as Reddit? Reddit is still a fresh corpse while Twitter has only a few decaying bones left.
Unfortunately it still has a critical mass user base, like reddit, so still here to stay until Elon really fucks up again.
Like you can try to use Mastodon or Blue sky but all the accounts I've wanted to follow are just people posting a few times with zero interactions, and then going back to Twitter.
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I'm just sick of every article in existence calling it "X formally known as Twitter" like what's the point, just either say X or say twitter it's filler bullshit to extend the article.
I see that as a kind of professional fu to Elon. As in "We know we need to call it X now, but since nobody actually does that, we'll also add the actual name".
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It probably helps searchability, since now there is a fracture of people looking up 'X news' and 'Twitter news'
I like it that way. It's the same as "Twitter now renamed X by a fool".
Calling it "X" is anything but professional.
"Xitter". It pronounces almost like "Shitter".
"X" letter is pronounced as "shh" sound in China for example Liu Cixin, the Chinese author of Three Body Problem, his last name supposed to be spelled "Cishin". So there is precedent.
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I'm always shocked to see Tumblr talking about current events because I forget there's people still there
I mean gestures broadly at our own tiny userbase
Look at mr. Lemmy talking down a way bigger service as if Lemmy is more relevant outside of their little bubble.
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I started typing xxx and found new sites I enjoy more.
Lot of birds on those as well
The name is "X, formerly known as twitter"
Thats it. Thats the whole name.
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Missing an option - "I'm combining the two names into a weird abomination that no one likes but that's what that platform deserves nowadays"
Xitter, pronounced shitter.
How about "I just change the subject whenever that irrelevant we site is brought up"
Oh no. Imagine having to talk about twitter in a professional setting. Those poor bastards.
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"Other/Results".
Possible candidates:
- The digital dumpster fire
- The scream hole
- Rag you can doom scroll
- "You know, I don't want to say it aloud"
- The slightly moderated version of Parlour
- Not-Reddit
- The tower of babel
and, lastly
- The town square of mental disease
"Don't @ me bro"
I thought we agreed to call it xitter (pronounced as shitter)
My Aussie friend calls it 'a platform from a cunt for a bunch of cunts'. I think I'll go with that.
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It is always correct to Dead Name corporations.
It's also correct to Deadname Super Villains who think "Eggman" is somehow more intimidating than "Robotnik"
The fifth option, allowed for only very small part of the population, should be "I'm Elon Musk and I call it twitter, and have to be constantly reminded to not do so by assistants, executives, shareholders, janitors, strangers."
I wonder if they’ll roll back the name change at some point, seems almost inevitable if Elon ever sells it.
Personally I don’t think I’ll ever call it X, not even out of dislike for Elon, just because it will always be stuck in my head as Twitter.
I try not to refer to it at all, but when I have to refer to it at work I call it "uuggh, that xitter site".
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