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I don't use it, but i'll forever call it Twitter.

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[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 194 points 1 month ago

Hey, good news, Elon. Most of us have gone from calling it "twitter" to calling it "that facist shithole that used to be twitter".

Good job wasting 43 BILLION dollars only to see it's traffic literally cut in half, you micro-penised shitstain on society. You will not be remembered as the genius your group of ass kissers tell you you are. You'll be remembered as being dumber than a one brain celled orange tabby.

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

You're being optimistic. He won't be remembered at all.

[-] Moob@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

All the biggest disasters are remembered.

[-] Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

And it’s now less than one year salary because greed.

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[-] Yurgenst@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago

That's giving him too much credit, orange cats are just dumb not evil. He sucks the life of of people, encourages the spread of disease and death. He's a mosquito. Just an annoying, insignificant bug that will only be remembered for the discomfort he caused.

[-] uis@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

I thought we always called it "radical shithole". Not much changed. It's just SJWs making indie gamedevs suicide were replaced with Christians making everyone else suicide.

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[-] VantaBrandon@lemmy.world 95 points 1 month ago

Its almost funnier to see every news publication constantly refer to it as "X (formerly known as Twitter"), the constant need to remind people of how stupid the decision was it amusing

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 50 points 1 month ago

I prefer "Twitter (temporarily known as X)"

[-] CaptnNMorgan@reddthat.com 15 points 1 month ago

That would imply he or someone else will change the name back to Twitter

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[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 57 points 1 month ago

Maybe he should buy Alphabet and rename their search engine.

Ooh or he could buy out Kleenex and rename that.

What the fuck would make someone throw out the name Twitter? It wasn't a bad name. It wasn't like...Phillip Morris or something.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 47 points 1 month ago

"wasn't a bad name" is the understatement of the year. it was one of the most successful brand names ever. normal people with functioning brains would kill to have a brand that's so ingrained in the language, especially without the threat of genericizing the trademark.

xerox didn't want people to use xerox as a generic verb to mean photocopy, or kleenex the same for a generic tissue.

but Twitter was never used to mean another social media site, and tweeting never means posting on Facebook or Tumblr or whatever. a tweet is specifically a post on Twitter. that's the perfect brand.

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[-] fox2263@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

He’s been wanting to have an “everything” company named X for years, since before PayPal I think. So he jumped at the chance to ruin twitter of course and rebuild it from the top down

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[-] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Maybe he should buy Alphabet and rename their search engine.

He'd probably do it because of his hatred for "aLphABeT PeOpLE!" like his own kid. That fucking prick. If he were on fire, I'd piss on him, but not at the base of the flames.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 12 points 1 month ago

I think all he managed to do, other than torching a legendary amount of money, was to create a bunch of easy content for some lazy college students in marketing 101. The ones who don’t want to dig to find something more interesting and nuanced.

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I’m gonna deadname his company for as long as he deadnames his kid :)

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 48 points 1 month ago

There's no such thing as deadnaming a company/corporation/brand, they aren't a living entity and have no will of their own, the one offended is their owner.

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 month ago

except they get more rights

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[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 month ago

I'm still pushing Xitter, pronounced with the "shee" sound

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 39 points 1 month ago

That's what I call it.

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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago

Is there anything the average person can do to increase the running cost of Twitter without increasing their revenue?

Like, can we just automate uploading videos of nothing meaningful, and re-loading them over and over forever?

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 38 points 1 month ago

It is always morally correct to deadname transphobes. Including JD Vance who's "Real" name is James Bowman

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[-] OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago

Awww. Poor Twitler doesn’t like his propaganda arm called Twitter.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago

That's pretty much what I've said about Twitter since he changed the name- I'll keep calling it Twitter while he still allows deadnaming.

[-] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 month ago
[-] subignition@fedia.io 60 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Intentionally using the former name ("dead name") of a (typically trans) person with the intent to cause harm

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[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 1 month ago

When saying the name of a trans person, it's when you use their previous name from before their transition. E.g. saying Ellen Page instead of Elliot Page.

Presumably it can also mean just calling someone by their previous name that they prefer to leave behind, even if not trans.

I have no idea who Musk's child is and no desire to look it up.

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[-] Slovene@feddit.nl 27 points 1 month ago

I thought we all agreed to call it shitter?

[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 month ago
[-] uis@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

Musk made CCP happy

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[-] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

Never. "X" is so cringey to say.

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[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago

I’ll call it twitter until twitter.com is a different website

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[-] oyo@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago

Dude literally bought Kleenex and insists you call it facial tissue paper.

[-] nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 month ago

Nah. He bought Kleenex and insists that you call it 42 because it's a cool number.

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

I still don't use twitter

[-] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Corporations are not people. They do not have a sense of identity. They do not deserve the same rights as humans. They are not capable of being affected by things like gender dysphoria. A corporation does not have feelings and is only a word we use to describe a collective form of actions made by ACTUAL humans.

You literally can not deadname a company. But Elon should understand the hypocrisy none the less.

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[-] Neon@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

deadnames?

Like, something with AEX12? Pretty sure it doesn't mean he has an actual dead child

[-] watersnipje 15 points 1 month ago

He has a transgender daughter, whom he still calls by her old, male name. Calling a trans person by their old name that they no longer use, is called deadnaming.

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[-] Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

I was following various folks on there but never much posted.

Then, a couple weeks ago they implemented some kind of "live" feature that started spamming notifications like crazy. The only way to disable it was to disable user notifications, which means Twitter went totally quiet for me.

I've checked in a couple times in the interim, but looks like I'm pretty much done with that app. I guess it was Elon's next step on the path to destroying Twitter.

[-] lugal@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 month ago

What about his child? The one with the name that qualifies as a good password?

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

Haha, funny. This guy thinks he can tell me what to do.

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