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[–] Saff@lemmy.ml 125 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Shawdow194@kbin.social 51 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Adding Xfinity - Comcast to this list

[–] grue@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago (7 children)

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)
[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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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[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Timwi@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

No, but it makes us feel like we're contributing to the conversation.

[–] Katzelle3@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Didn't the Alphabet rebranding happen because boomer investors were confused about which Google stock to invest in?

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[–] lamyipming@lemmy.world 89 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That site is as dead as Reddit to me now. I don't care whatever it's called

[–] sleen@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah people don't realise what shithole these two have become

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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 59 points 2 years ago

Calling it "X" is anything but professional.

[–] Shurimal@kbin.social 52 points 2 years ago (3 children)

"Xitter". It pronounces almost like "Shitter".

[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No almost about it. It's Shitter and that's final.

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[–] BustinJiber@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"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.

[–] Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm always shocked to see Tumblr talking about current events because I forget there's people still there

[–] NoSpiritAnimal@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean gestures broadly at our own tiny userbase

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Yeah but I can still see butt sex here

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[–] lauha@lemmy.one 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Look at mr. Lemmy talking down a way bigger service as if Lemmy is more relevant outside of their little bubble.

[–] hark@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 47 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I started typing xxx and found new sites I enjoy more.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 years ago

Lot of birds on those as well

[–] Ekybio@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The name is "X, formerly known as twitter"

Thats it. Thats the whole name.

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[–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago

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"

[–] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] soggy_kitty@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Can you spell that phonetically

[–] 6mementomori@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago
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[–] recapitated@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

How about "I just change the subject whenever that irrelevant we site is brought up"

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh no. Imagine having to talk about twitter in a professional setting. Those poor bastards.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

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..."

[–] avater@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

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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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago

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"

[–] BustinJiber@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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."

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

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".

[–] li10@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] drathvedro@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago
[–] kubica@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

X, futurely Twitter.

[–] jayrodtheoldbod@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

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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