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[–] gotnuffin@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I like how you still call it a tweet. I hope tweet, tweeting and twitter remain the lexicon for X forever.

[–] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tweet and Retweet are now Post and Repost 😭

[–] rigatti@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

It's just mindboggling. I never even used Twitter and I'm annoyed about it.

[–] Cabrio@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

More like eXcrete, and eXhibit.

[–] aeternum@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

I X'ed about it last night.

[–] LittleWizard@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Twitter and tweeting where such well established and creative words, which set Twitter apart. I loved the analogy to birds. And Elon just throws all of that away...

[–] Onionizer@geddit.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can still toot on Mastodon at least

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Loxodon flatulence best flatulence

[–] Syrc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No no, let it change. If β€œβ€β€X””” loses the actually marketable and popular terminology it’s all downhill from there (like, even more than now)