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Worked great when the artist formerly known as Prince changed his name to a symbol.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No, because that would imply Musk and Twitter is on the same level as TAFKA Prince.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Plus, Prince did it to get out of a shitty record contract, musk did it because he's stuck at age 11 emotionally.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That is long, lets acronymize it: TWFKAT, pronounced twif-cat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Would be nice if we could call them TWATS

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

So does a "tweet" become a "message/action formerly known as a tweet?" That's gonna get tiresome reeeeeal fast.

I love it.

"I was on the website formerly known as Twitter and I read this really funny message formerly known as a tweet about how Elon Musk is totally botching the website formerly known as Twitter. I totally action formerly known as retweeted it."

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I liked the idea of pronouncing it "10" like the Roman numeral. It's not necessarily incorrect, and it fucks with Elon's ego

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

I’ve been pronouncing it like that sound a gameshow buzzer makes when you get something wrong or run out of time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm going with the Cyrillic pronunciation: Zh

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Cyrillic Х is "Kh", Ж is "Zh".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Even better. Sounds like you're a little sick every time you say the name.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

In short, ex-twitter?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

How about we keep calling it Twitter, because big shitty companies don't get to have the privilege of rebranding so we forget how shitty they are.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Twitter's eX

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Keep calling it twitter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I for one think X is a very cool name. Nice rebranding!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I'm still calling it twitter.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The eXsocial media company.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've been having fun writing a dumb userscript to help me cope with this.

Yes, it can put back a bird of your choosing as a logo, but why stop there.

Instead of tweeting on Twitter, I can now spez on Reddit, skeet on Bluesky, or just eXecrate on X, the Elon way.

It's ridiculous and pointless, and I'm not sorry.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I prefer to "Toot" on Mastodon or "Ignore all this pointless bullshit" on Kbin

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

@metaStatic @CyberTaco @itsnotlupus

When I'm done with Lemmy for the day, I like to creep on my AskLemmy users from Mastodon.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can we get it to wear assless chaps while we're at it?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Platform: Twatter Users: Twitterati

I have been using this for years

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Just refer to it as “My X”

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

Let's just make it a symbol.

I propose two lines on top of each other on the diagonal.

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