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I'm not sure which I find more irritating. Witness tampering or media orgs calling Twitter "X."
It should only ever be referred to as "X, formerly known as Twitter". Much like Prince changing his name, this is a bad move for branding, though I suppose Prince didn't give a fuck about that!
I prefer "Twitter, which Elon Musk refers to as X"
"Twitter, which Elon Musk rebranded as X with an estimated cost of $20 billion"
"...until today. But he'll lose the rest as well probably."
Prince changed his name due to conflict with production companies. It was more done in protest as they were retaining so much of the revenue he brought in.
Just twitter is fine. You don't have to do what an insane billionaire wants.
They should simply do a Prince, call it 'the social media site formerly known as twitter' and not mention X at all.
Prince did that because he wasn't allowed to release albums under the Prince name for some number of years.
So he said "ok fine I'm not Prince, I'm TAFKAP", all of his fans knew where to see him on tour and how to buy his stuff.
Then when the 5 years or whatever ran out he coincidentally wanted to be Prince again.
Seems like a bad contract by the record company to me.
I still don’t call Facebook “meta”. I always suspected they changed the name in the first place because of the negative press Facebook was getting
Same with Google. I don’t call them Alphabet.
TIL that’s a real thing and not some weird nickname people were giving to Google. Yeah, im going to call them that either.
But isn't the product Facebook still called Facebook? It's the name of the holding company that changed.
It’s still all Facebook to me.