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 see a lot of outlets no longer saying formerly Twitter.
Xitter has quite the ring to it.
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
In my headcanon, Twitter users were called twits, so Xitter users are called xits, pronounced appropriately.
I’m in favor of calling it X because it’ll die quicker.
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.
I have been mentally keeping track how often I see “formerly Twitter” and I’m surprised that it’s lasted this long tbh
I’m pretty sure that “x, formerly known as twitter” is the name of the company. So… forever.
I keep seeing people call it “X, the Everything App” and ngl it’s funny every single time
Forever, unless they start calling it Xcom (which would then be confused with the game) X itself could also mean Xorg (https://x.org) which is a lot older. Not to mention that it looks like someone forgot to remove a placeholder “in the site X, many people talk about…”
They will just call it threads. Because that’s what they will use
Everyone collectively agreed x is stupid and I hope spite will make sure this sentiment never changes
Almost as stupid as facebook creating a platform called threads. Zero creativity, and maxium collaboration inconvience with our language usage, plus facebook trying to stick their nose in fediverse where the whole point was to get away from their centralized metaverse BS. Facebook can fuck off.
Yeah, its getting absurd by now. Maybe we should help with the rebranding a lil bit… In Polish I prefer to call it exTwitter, but in English I’d hope calling it just “formerly” will catch on.
Hopefully in a year or two they’ll eventually just call it Twitter or maybe if we’re lucky it will go out of busi and then they’ll probably still just call it Twitter because the X thing would then have just been a short lived portion of its overall lifespan.
It’s still twitter now and always will be so it doesn’t matter.
Just call it the X social media site
It will always be Twitter to me
