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[–] [email protected] 175 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I fucking love how news outlets refuse to acknowledge the new name.

I am all in on only referring to it as Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’ve taken to calling it “The service formerly known as Twitter.”

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nah just disrespect the whole sham.

Call it Twitter. Call them tweets.

Nobody calls Facebook "Meta".

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

People call the company that owns Facebook Meta all the time. Facebook is still called Facebook because they didn't change Facebook to Meta, they changed The Facebook Company to Meta.

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

Technically Facebook is still called Facebook, it's the parent company (IE who owns everything and who is listed on the stock market) that's now named Meta. However it's a similar situation to Google and the parent company Alphabet, No one calls google or google connected products Alphabet products because it's not meant to be what you refer to it as.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pronounced as in portuguese (sh)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I personally am not willing to gloss over the stupidity of Musk and fix his mistakes. I am calling it X and Xers just to emphasize how stupid he is.