For the same reason I still called Alphabet - Google, and Meta - Facebook. I refuse to let large corporations just try and shake off their shitty past with a name change.
this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2024
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Adding Xfinity - Comcast to this list
See also:
- Constellis Holdings, née Academi, née Xe Services, née Blackwater (mercenary group owned by right-wing politicians)
- Altria, née Philip Morris (tobacco manufacturer)
- CoreCivic, née Corrections Corporation of America (private prison operator)
- Chiquita, née United Fruit Company and Cuyamel Fruit Company (overthrew the government of Honduras, among other things)
Having fallen in love with Carmen Miranda before reading La United Fruit Company stilllll sucks.
Also add Blackwater to this list. Warcrimes and looting by American plutocratic mercenaries and now their name is not obviously pronounceable. They did an amazingly good [bad for everyone but them] rename.
Also add Blackwater to this list.
They've changed names so many times I guess you missed that it was already there:
- Constellis Holdings, née Academi, née Xe Services, née Blackwater
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I honestly think ‘X’ has more stink on it than ‘Twitter’ which is why I’ve been happy to start referring to it as ‘X’.
I don’t think continuing to call it ‘Twitter’ hurts Elon one bit.
No, but it makes us feel like we're contributing to the conversation.
Didn't the Alphabet rebranding happen because boomer investors were confused about which Google stock to invest in?
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That site is as dead as Reddit to me now. I don't care whatever it's called
Calling it "X" is anything but professional.
"Xitter". It pronounces almost like "Shitter".
"X" letter is pronounced as "shh" sound in China for example Liu Cixin, the Chinese author of Three Body Problem, his last name supposed to be spelled "Cishin". So there is precedent.
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I'm always shocked to see Tumblr talking about current events because I forget there's people still there
I mean gestures broadly at our own tiny userbase
Look at mr. Lemmy talking down a way bigger service as if Lemmy is more relevant outside of their little bubble.
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I started typing xxx and found new sites I enjoy more.
Lot of birds on those as well
The name is "X, formerly known as twitter"
Thats it. Thats the whole name.
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Missing an option - "I'm combining the two names into a weird abomination that no one likes but that's what that platform deserves nowadays"
How about "I just change the subject whenever that irrelevant we site is brought up"
Oh no. Imagine having to talk about twitter in a professional setting. Those poor bastards.
Why had to update all the share icons at work because of Muskrat. I argued for leaving them as the bird, but I was overridden. Nobody has fond feelings about the site anymore. Every time it is brought up everyone's reaction is "ugh, that site..."
My Aussie friend calls it 'a platform from a cunt for a bunch of cunts'. I think I'll go with that.
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It is always correct to Dead Name corporations.
It's also correct to Deadname Super Villains who think "Eggman" is somehow more intimidating than "Robotnik"
The fifth option, allowed for only very small part of the population, should be "I'm Elon Musk and I call it twitter, and have to be constantly reminded to not do so by assistants, executives, shareholders, janitors, strangers."
I try not to refer to it at all, but when I have to refer to it at work I call it "uuggh, that xitter site".
I wonder if they’ll roll back the name change at some point, seems almost inevitable if Elon ever sells it.
Personally I don’t think I’ll ever call it X, not even out of dislike for Elon, just because it will always be stuck in my head as Twitter.
X, futurely Twitter.
I really don't have a passionate stance about it, I just know I called it Twitter for ages, X is shitty branding and isn't going to work, and I stopped using the platform well before Musk took over, so I'm not doing any sort of mental labor trying to make myself use the crap name he chose.
It's a dead website to me, and it's everyone else's problem that they trapped themselves on Twitter, having no career without it. I'm not doing a single thing on behalf of anybody who is still there, those are ghosts, let them howl in the attic, I don't work here.
It's not a human person. It's a website full of assholes. I would make an effort for a transitioning person, but not for Elon Musk and his ham-fisted stupidity, for the folly of some wealthy prick.
It's Twitter until I forget what it's called.
The convention for websites is generally "name" dot com or "name" dot org. If you want to change the name, change the website name.
Until we start going to x.com instead, I'm going to talk about twitter(.com)
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