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Usage Of Elon Musk’s X Dropped 30% In The Last Year, Study Suggests (www.forbes.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] lettruthout 56 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)

I'm back to calling it Twitter. (Not that I'm ever on it though.)

[–] NocturnalEngineer 47 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's such a stupid name! Everytime it's mentioned, it has to be prepend or suffixed with something so people actually understand the "X" context.

And more importantly - If you visit x.com, it redirects to twitter.com! So what's the fucking point of the rebrand?

[–] homesweethomeMrL 19 points 8 months ago

Genius, i say! The man’s an absolute genius!

Obviously. Some people say trump should run a social media platform. More and more.

[–] FlyingSquid 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Until he stops allowing deadnaming on his site, I'm going to deadname his site.

[–] WaxiestSteam69 6 points 8 months ago

It's only fair.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago

Xitter, but the X makes a ‘sh’ sound.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Xwitter (zwitter)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

To the Mayan people X makes a 'sh' sound. That's the way I pronounce it. Now and forever.

Xitter, I mean Shitter. I still pronounce the letter X normally.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In Portuguese, too. And most other languages from Iberia*. And "x" is typically so rare in other orthographies that, for Portuguese speakers, rendering "x" as /ʃ/ (the "sh" sound) is almost automatic, so the first time that I saw "Xitter" I couldn't stop laughing.

*with one exception: modern Spanish. And by "modern" I mean past the 17th century, because before that it was /ʃ/ in Spanish too. That's where the Maya languages got that spelling convention from.

(Sorry for the off-topic.)

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

This was almost entirely on topic

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Xchan

[–] frunch 5 points 8 months ago

Szechuan

[–] seaQueue 6 points 8 months ago

I haven't stopped calling it twatter

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What do people call a tweet in the X rebranding?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Xcrement

[–] BigMikeInAustin 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've seen "xeet" from people outside of Twitter. Not sure what an X person would say. It's pronounced "shit" or "sheet".

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago

I call it the x social media site