I’m genuinely curious about peoples thoughts on this.
It made sense for a while. But the branding change was 16 months ago. The URI change was 3 months ago. Everybody knows now what X is. Yet for some reason, I still see in news stories today:
“… on X — formerly known as Twitter — and said …”
I really don’t think that’s needed anymore. But I’m always one to want changes as fast and painless as possible.
So what do you think would be an appropriate amount of time to keep reminding everyone that Twitter is now X?
Months?
Years?
How many?
I never stopped calling it Twitter. X is a window manager, a letter of the alphabet, or the most algebraic variable name. It’s not a name for a company.
As long as it makes Musk mad 😂
I’m pretty sure that “x, formerly known as twitter” is the name of the company. So… forever.
Forever, because X looks like a placeholder and media wants to be clear so they use the name that people actually associate with that trash website. It will never just be X because it is a terrible name for a business.
My mind keeps coming up with tag lines for X….
X:
… where the fruits of piracy can be found
… - rated best for quirky images
… where you’ll find that special someone you realized you DON’T want to spend the rest of your life with.
Anyone got more?
I think, the main problem is that “X” doesn’t look like a name.
When someone’s not starkly aware of the platform being called that, they might think the author typoed.
Or is using it like the idiom “they posted it to X, Y and Z” (so just a nondescript set of platforms).
Or genuinely means the letter X and that just doesn’t make sense in the context presented.“X, formerly Twitter” is just a better name than “X”, because it is recognizable.
Until the public short message service no longer exists?
This could happen in a number of ways.
Hopefully until the platform dies
It will always be Twitter to me
It will always be Twitter to me. X is a variable in a math problem… not a company name. Oh, I’m also lazy and have never used Twitter.
Xitter has quite the ring to it.
In my headcanon, Twitter users were called twits, so Xitter users are called xits, pronounced appropriately.
When I see “Xitter”, I think it might be pronounced Exeter, like the town in southwest England. But that feels like an undeserved slight against the good people of Devon and England.
i pronounce it like Xi, like zhitter, or just shitter
The next gen is gonna be making fun of Gen Z by saying “formally Twitter” and Millennials are finally going to win.
It’ll be the first win we ever had. We damn sure aren’t winning in the housing market.
Hey, millenials. Show of hands, who has a house???
See, millenials HAVE hands. You just don’t see them, because none of us have houses.
Seriously though, what is x.com and the x app? I just followed the link to google play and it seems’ish like it’s just the twitter microblog, but I’m seeing things mentioned that I didn’t think are part of twitter. I’ve never used twitter or any x products, so I’m actually in the dark.
I keep seeing people call it “X, the Everything App” and ngl it’s funny every single time
I have been mentally keeping track how often I see “formerly Twitter” and I’m surprised that it’s lasted this long tbh
