That is long, lets acronymize it: TWFKAT, pronounced twif-cat.
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Would be nice if we could call them TWATS
My thoughts exactly.
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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Uh I'm gonna keep calling it twitter. I still call Facebook by its real name too.
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Keep calling it twitter.
I say just let it continue to lose its brand value by muddying the waters.
The eX-Bird App?
xXx^x^
I for one think X is a very cool name. Nice rebranding!
Twitter's eX
Can we get it to wear assless chaps while we're at it?
Formerly Known as Twitter is too long .... FKT hit it on a few levels.
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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.
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I call it Larry.
This was the name used for the Twitter bird from 2010 to 2012 before redesigning it into what we had before 𝕏.
Shitter?
Pretty sure it is "yee"
Did he change his last name, too? To "haw" perhaps?
The eXsocial media company.
I am going to call it twatter just to make people have a moment of "wait did he say what I think he said or did I mishear him?"
Some publications often do this. At least on Reuteres, as well as other news sites, I've seen that Twitter/X is now referred to as "X, formerly Twitter", probably to avoid confusion.
But "the website formerly known as Twitter" is just too lengthy for everyday conversation. I just call it Twitter, everyone knows what it means
Y'know, they changed the name of an avenue nearby my childhood house from a single word name to the name of an obscure politician. This happened 30 years ago. People in the city still refer to it as it's old name so much that they might not even know the current name.
Just because he has money, doesn't mean he gets to tell you what things are called.
They changed the name of the millennium dome in London to "the 02 Arena".
I'm not letting you pay someone else for me to say your (unrelated) brand's name in private conversation.
If Verizon sponsored the Whitehouse and said "it's called the Verizon Democracy Centre" now, what would you call it?
I never stopped calling him Prince 😂
This post isn't even a question