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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (6 children)

X? Can we collectively decide to forever call it "X, formerly known as Twitter" just to piss him off?

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like the most recent The Verge variant: Twitter, X, or whatever it’s currently called...

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TwiX is unfortunately already taken.

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

Damn, I could go for a twix bar right about now.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I call it Xitter. The X is pronounced with an "sh" sound.

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

Exitter is also a valid prononciation

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I saw someone on Mastodon say something along the lines of "I'll continue to deadname Twitter for as long as Musk continues to deadname his daughter" and I love that sentiment.

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

daaaaaaamn. That's brilliant.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Better to just call it “The site formerly known as Twitter” and don't mention X at all. That would piss him off more.

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

"...posted on social media..."

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

Ooh, even better!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Seems like it will be the website formerly known as existing soon enough.

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

I just call it Twitter. Just like I call the (former?) rapper Kanye West. I don't cater to the whims of the 1% if I can help it.