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Twitter under fire for reinstating account that posted child sex abuse::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are people just ignoring the X name change and still calling it Twitter? That’s awesome lol

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

Of course. X is dumb… I talked to people being confused, thinking X was supposed to be a placeholder.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Of course. I don't call Facebook Meta, and I don't call Google Alphabet.

You can change your company's name, or nest it in a shell, people still know who you are

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

Google and Facebook weren't rebranded. Twitter was.

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

On their case the name change was only for the company not for the product

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

That’s not the same thing.