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Right-wing influencers pledge to bail out Elon Musk after Apple, Disney, others suspend advertising on X (mashable.com)
submitted 1 year ago by realitista to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yes, it is pronounced Shitter, and Tweets are now Toots.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

X-creets

[–] Beetschnapps 3 points 1 year ago

Yea I always used “Xcreations”. Nothing but shit anyways…

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do NOT associate Mastodon stuff with that shit

[–] DarthBueller 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What term constituted “mastodon stuff” to prompt your comment? Haven’t yet tried mastodon so just curious.

[–] q47tx 8 points 1 year ago

Toots

[–] dustyData 7 points 1 year ago

A guy pledged a bunch of money to the creator of Mastodon if he named the posts “toots”. So the name stuck and Mastodon got a bunch of server and development funds.

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

Tweets are now Sharts!