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[–] captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 64 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It’s Twitter. No need to adopt his pet name for it.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I thought it was Xitter, where the X is pronounced with the Chinese "sh" pronunciation.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Exactly. It's now Xitter, pronounced as "Shitter".

[–] amelia@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

In Europe, the chocolate bar "Twix" was called "Raider" until the 1990s or so. When they changed the name, they ran a famous ad campaign with the slogan "Raider is now called Twix!" which is still not only remembered but even became an ironic saying (at least in Germany) for when things (try to make it) seem like they change but they actually stay the same.

So... Twitter is now obviously called Twix for me.

[–] jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 27 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Twitter (Currently known as Elon Musk's X) has a nice ring to it

[–] RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

I'm going to call it Grimes now

it's Elon Musk's x

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Twitter (the X social media site)

[–] Teal@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Happy first cake day!

[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Twitter (desperately purporting to be Elon Musk's X)

[–] Caaaaarrrrlll@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Xitter has an even better ring to it

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I"m conflicted because I hate deadnaming people....

But corpos aren't people, so fuck em

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In other news, Elon Musk sues Fidelity...

[–] TurboHarbinger@feddit.cl 3 points 2 years ago

He buys them.

This is what he did when he bought Twitter. He removed that guy who was posting his plane/traveling schedule. I'm sure he was this petty.