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[–] [email protected] 156 points 3 months ago (7 children)

When did we get away from saying “X - formerly known as Twitter” ? I liked seeing that gentle nudge in every headline.

[–] Delusional 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] smokin_shinobi 2 points 3 months ago

I liked Roman Numeral Ten.

[–] BroBot9000 21 points 3 months ago

No we’re past that point. I’d much rather call it X and have the people left on that awful network swallow the jagged X pill instead of kidding themselves into thinking they are still on Twitter.

They are Xers now.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I try to refer to it as Xitter. Posts are xeets.

[–] DarkDecay 15 points 3 months ago

I call them xcrements

[–] Bookmeat 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's better to call it X and not continue to soil the Twitter name.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Twitter was always shit.

Like all social media.

[–] Bookmeat 3 points 3 months ago

Yes, but at least it wasn't X.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

How long do you do that for? He changed it to X who cares how dumb it is that is now the name.

[–] pjwestin 3 points 3 months ago

I still get emails from my dormant account, and according to my Gmail, the sender is, "X (formerly Twitter)," so I don't think we're done with that yet.

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

It's still twitter, the place for twits, like Elon.