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I don't use it, but i'll forever call it Twitter.

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[–] Lost_My_Mind 198 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Hey, good news, Elon. Most of us have gone from calling it "twitter" to calling it "that facist shithole that used to be twitter".

Good job wasting 43 BILLION dollars only to see it's traffic literally cut in half, you micro-penised shitstain on society. You will not be remembered as the genius your group of ass kissers tell you you are. You'll be remembered as being dumber than a one brain celled orange tabby.

[–] ceenote 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You're being optimistic. He won't be remembered at all.

[–] Moob 30 points 5 months ago

All the biggest disasters are remembered.

[–] Hobbes_Dent 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

And it’s now less than one year salary because greed.

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[–] [email protected] 104 points 5 months ago (3 children)

X is still such a stupid fucking name. I feel cringe saying that.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I won't. It will always be twitter, and he bought it because people made fun of him.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

He offered to buy it as a joke, and was forced to finish the transaction because he had taken it too far by actually signing contracts and putting money down. He was gonna go "Just kidding" and pull out, but then the courts told him that this already constituted a legally binding sell and if he tried to back out now he'd go to jail for fraud.

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[–] saltesc 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's very "hacking, trenchcoats, and Muse are cool" isn't it?

Like, yeah. Obviously this guy thought of it...

[–] yemmly 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

What did Muse do to deserve this?

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

X11 is such a great name. Imagine instead of x.com opening x.org.

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[–] VantaBrandon 99 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Its almost funnier to see every news publication constantly refer to it as "X (formerly known as Twitter"), the constant need to remind people of how stupid the decision was it amusing

[–] [email protected] 52 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I prefer "Twitter (temporarily known as X)"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (7 children)

That would imply he or someone else will change the name back to Twitter

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[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart 81 points 5 months ago (3 children)

He looks high as giraffe pussy in that picture.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 46 points 5 months ago (6 children)

..........ya know, I'm 40 years old, and up until this point in my life I've never once considered what a giraffe pussy looks like......and my brain isn't capable of doing so. Maybe that's a good thing.

[–] SpaceNoodle 41 points 5 months ago (4 children)

They got a zoo in your town?

[–] popekingjoe 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't think I like where this is going...

[–] SpaceNoodle 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] popekingjoe 16 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Yeah it's way too hot for a zoo trip. 🫠

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Maybe he should buy Alphabet and rename their search engine.

Ooh or he could buy out Kleenex and rename that.

What the fuck would make someone throw out the name Twitter? It wasn't a bad name. It wasn't like...Phillip Morris or something.

[–] pyre 48 points 5 months ago (3 children)

"wasn't a bad name" is the understatement of the year. it was one of the most successful brand names ever. normal people with functioning brains would kill to have a brand that's so ingrained in the language, especially without the threat of genericizing the trademark.

xerox didn't want people to use xerox as a generic verb to mean photocopy, or kleenex the same for a generic tissue.

but Twitter was never used to mean another social media site, and tweeting never means posting on Facebook or Tumblr or whatever. a tweet is specifically a post on Twitter. that's the perfect brand.

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[–] fox2263 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He’s been wanting to have an “everything” company named X for years, since before PayPal I think. So he jumped at the chance to ruin twitter of course and rebuild it from the top down

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago

I’m gonna deadname his company for as long as he deadnames his kid :)

[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago (6 children)

There's no such thing as deadnaming a company/corporation/brand, they aren't a living entity and have no will of their own, the one offended is their owner.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago

except they get more rights

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm still pushing Xitter, pronounced with the "shee" sound

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago

That's what I call it.

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[–] Agent641 42 points 5 months ago

Is there anything the average person can do to increase the running cost of Twitter without increasing their revenue?

Like, can we just automate uploading videos of nothing meaningful, and re-loading them over and over forever?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It is always morally correct to deadname transphobes. Including JD Vance who's "Real" name is James Bowman

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[–] OhStopYellingAtMe 37 points 5 months ago

Awww. Poor Twitler doesn’t like his propaganda arm called Twitter.

[–] FlyingSquid 33 points 5 months ago

That's pretty much what I've said about Twitter since he changed the name- I'll keep calling it Twitter while he still allows deadnaming.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I thought we all agreed to call it shitter?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (8 children)
[–] [email protected] 59 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (20 children)

Intentionally using the former name ("dead name") of a (typically trans) person with the intent to cause harm

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[–] AgentGrimstone 21 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Never. "X" is so cringey to say.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I’ll call it twitter until twitter.com is a different website

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Dude literally bought Kleenex and insists you call it facial tissue paper.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

Nah. He bought Kleenex and insists that you call it 42 because it's a cool number.

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[–] TropicalDingdong 15 points 5 months ago

I still don't use twitter

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