• Puppy
    58•11 months ago

    I think it’s fait to just call it Twitter and not “x” or “twitter/x” or “x social” or “Twitter but actually x”

    X will never stick 😅

    • Overzeetop
      43•11 months ago

      I think I’m okay with it being referred to as “the social media network formerly known as Twitter” from here on out.

      • @[email protected]
        54•11 months ago

        I’m not. Prince was awesome. He changed his name to a symbol because Warner Bros trademarked his name and wouldn’t let him do what he wanted with his own music. People started calling him The Artist Formally Know as Prince. But the reason was ignored and everyone made fun of him.

        Musk is an idiot and loser and shouldn’t be even tangentially compared to Prince.

        I much prefer to call it “10”

        • @[email protected]
          7•11 months ago

          This might hurt a little, but I don’t think most people today know who Prince is. I just know that he was a musician. That sentence is also a commonly used sentence in such scenarios, unrelated to one person.

        • @[email protected]
          2•11 months ago

          No idea who prince is except he’s a musician but “the site formerly known as Twitter” sounds hilarious

        • Dylpickles
          -11•11 months ago

          I think you’re a little silly for assuming that directly references Prince. I wasn’t even alive when all that stuff with Prince was happening and I had only heard it happened in a conversation I had with my mom when I was like 12. A conversation suddenly brought back to mind by your comment.

          That’s just kinda what you call something that was formerly known as something else when the something else is not well received.

    • eric
      26•11 months ago

      “Elon, stop trying to make X happen. It’s not going to happen.”

          • @[email protected]
            4•11 months ago

            Leaded gas just started being phased out in the US in 1973 was still in use in the 80s was didn’t stop entirely until 1996. South Africa didn’t ban it until sometime between 2002 and 2006. It’s often used in reference to boomers, but gen x was also affected, even millennials to a lesser degree.