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[–] [email protected] 269 points 1 year ago (4 children)

"We're expect folks will go along and stop referring to 'tweeting' and go with the more brand appropriate term of 'x-creting' from now on." Musk said before adding, "'X-cretions' and 'x-creted' are encouraged too.

[–] [email protected] 116 points 1 year ago

The fact that I don't know if this is real or a joke tells you how ridiculous Musk has become.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago (1 children)

idk if you came up with this but I expect to see this joke a bunch more in the coming days lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I can't imagine that others haven't had the same thought, but I had not seen anything previously. It's low hanging fruit, but you take what you can get!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Does that make the people on X x-crements?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Why not just go ahead and call it X-crement?