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

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

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

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

I prefer "Twitter (temporarily known as X)"

"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.

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

except they get more rights

That's what I call it.

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

When saying the name of a trans person, it's when you use their previous name from before their transition. E.g. saying Ellen Page instead of Elliot Page.

Presumably it can also mean just calling someone by their previous name that they prefer to leave behind, even if not trans.

I have no idea who Musk's child is and no desire to look it up.

Xitter

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

"Only the vast majority of the population are left" is a weird argument to make.