For the same reason I still called Alphabet - Google, and Meta - Facebook. I refuse to let large corporations just try and shake off their shitty past with a name change.
Adding Xfinity - Comcast to this list
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Having fallen in love with Carmen Miranda before reading La United Fruit Company stilllll sucks.
Also add Blackwater to this list. Warcrimes and looting by American plutocratic mercenaries and now their name is not obviously pronounceable. They did an amazingly good [bad for everyone but them] rename.
Also add Blackwater to this list.
They've changed names so many times I guess you missed that it was already there:
- Constellis Holdings, née Academi, née Xe Services, née Blackwater
Charter did the same thing with Spectrum.
I honestly think ‘X’ has more stink on it than ‘Twitter’ which is why I’ve been happy to start referring to it as ‘X’.
I don’t think continuing to call it ‘Twitter’ hurts Elon one bit.
Didn't the Alphabet rebranding happen because boomer investors were confused about which Google stock to invest in?
Theirs actually made a bit more sense. They didn't try to actually get people to use the new name, because it was a business restructure, not a "brand" restructure.
For business management purposes, it didn't make sense for a search engine company to do things like "own a car company". So they split the business units up and made things a little more organized. They ran into some name issues because the most recognizable face of the company is so strongly associated with search, and they didn't want to mess with that, so they made a new name for the top.
Companies do stuff like that all the time, but it usually doesn't raise to public attention because it doesn't happen to major brands, or hit the top level of the business.
They still label all their stuff Google, and their stock ticker is still googl.
That site is as dead as Reddit to me now. I don't care whatever it's called
Only as dead as Reddit? Reddit is still a fresh corpse while Twitter has only a few decaying bones left.
Yeah people don't realise what shithole these two have become
Twitter has been a shithole since it’s inception.
Reddit only became a shithole like five or six years ago.
I'm just sick of every article in existence calling it "X formally known as Twitter" like what's the point, just either say X or say twitter it's filler bullshit to extend the article.
It probably helps searchability, since now there is a fracture of people looking up 'X news' and 'Twitter news'
I see that as a kind of professional fu to Elon. As in "We know we need to call it X now, but since nobody actually does that, we'll also add the actual name".
Calling it "X" is anything but professional.
"Xitter". It pronounces almost like "Shitter".
I also use this but I recently spelled it "Xhitter" and I think that might sell the pronunciation even better.
The name is "X, formerly known as twitter"
Thats it. Thats the whole name.
It is always correct to Dead Name corporations.
It's also correct to Deadname Super Villains who think "Eggman" is somehow more intimidating than "Robotnik"
I wonder if they’ll roll back the name change at some point, seems almost inevitable if Elon ever sells it.
Personally I don’t think I’ll ever call it X, not even out of dislike for Elon, just because it will always be stuck in my head as Twitter.
I'm always shocked to see Tumblr talking about current events because I forget there's people still there
My Aussie friend calls it 'a platform from a cunt for a bunch of cunts'. I think I'll go with that.
Oh no. Imagine having to talk about twitter in a professional setting. Those poor bastards.
Why had to update all the share icons at work because of Muskrat. I argued for leaving them as the bird, but I was overridden. Nobody has fond feelings about the site anymore. Every time it is brought up everyone's reaction is "ugh, that site..."
I really don't have a passionate stance about it, I just know I called it Twitter for ages, X is shitty branding and isn't going to work, and I stopped using the platform well before Musk took over, so I'm not doing any sort of mental labor trying to make myself use the crap name he chose.
It's a dead website to me, and it's everyone else's problem that they trapped themselves on Twitter, having no career without it. I'm not doing a single thing on behalf of anybody who is still there, those are ghosts, let them howl in the attic, I don't work here.
It's not a human person. It's a website full of assholes. I would make an effort for a transitioning person, but not for Elon Musk and his ham-fisted stupidity, for the folly of some wealthy prick.
It's Twitter until I forget what it's called.
X is too short and generic. It is literally just a letter.
Shitter, clearly the only acceptable name.
Won't even use it for porn now.
The convention for websites is generally "name" dot com or "name" dot org. If you want to change the name, change the website name.
Until we start going to x.com instead, I'm going to talk about twitter(.com)
“Xwitter”
The X is like a fallen over t. Like twitter, falling apart.
I liked what one person said I forget where I saw it of calling it Xitter and pronouncing it like Shitter.
I am not calling it "Twitter, formerly known as Prince"
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