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[–] captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 68 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

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

[–] amelia@feddit.de 2 points 10 months 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 30 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

I'm going to call it Grimes now

it's Elon Musk's x

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Twitter (the X social media site)

[–] Teal@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Happy first cake day!

[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Caaaaarrrrlll@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Xitter has an even better ring to it

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

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

But corpos aren't people, so fuck em