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[–] 156 points 3 years ago (4 children)

I'm sure this won't end up being a huge deal, but the funny part is that this apparently wasn't planned for. Gives you some insight into how much of a shit show Twitter/X HQ must be right now.

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  • [–] 58 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I think it's fait to just call it Twitter and not "x" or "twitter/x" or "x social" or "Twitter but actually x"

    X will never stick 😅

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  • [–] 44 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I think I’m okay with it being referred to as “the social media network formerly known as Twitter” from here on out.

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  • [–] 53 points 3 years ago* (5 children)

    I'm not. Prince was awesome. He changed his name to a symbol because Warner Bros trademarked his name and wouldn't let him do what he wanted with his own music. People started calling him The Artist Formally Know as Prince. But the reason was ignored and everyone made fun of him.

    Musk is an idiot and loser and shouldn't be even tangentially compared to Prince.

    I much prefer to call it "10"

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  • [+] -10 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    I think you're a little silly for assuming that directly references Prince. I wasn't even alive when all that stuff with Prince was happening and I had only heard it happened in a conversation I had with my mom when I was like 12. A conversation suddenly brought back to mind by your comment.

    That's just kinda what you call something that was formerly known as something else when the something else is not well received.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    “Elon, stop trying to make X happen. It’s not going to happen.”

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It was cool in the 90s like i in front of a word was cool in the 00/10s. That was his era.

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  • [+] 7 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Leaded gas just started being phased out in the US in 1973 was still in use in the 80s was didn't stop entirely until 1996. South Africa didn't ban it until sometime between 2002 and 2006. It's often used in reference to boomers, but gen x was also affected, even millennials to a lesser degree.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    It's been renamed to X on my partner's iPhone so they seem to have gotten round it already.

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