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Two brands suspend advertising on X after their ads appeared next to pro-Nazi content (www.cnn.com)
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[–] 74 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

Things are going great, Linda

Also can news outlets please stop referring to Twitter as X? X is the stupidest name I've ever heard.

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

    It's the official name so the news is obliged. Your brain can handle this detail I'm sure.

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

    Yeah, it's just like when Prince changed his name. The media will just keep going "X, formerly known as Twitter" forever.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    Prince changed his name to an unprinteable character so they had no choice.

    As I recall, some of the media used the short form TAFKAP (the artist formerly known as Prince).

    As for xtwitter, I vote for FKT. Pronounced as a word.

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

    in that case Prince changed his name to the artist formally known as Prince because of some sort of trademark or copyright dispute. So again the media is just reporting the facts.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    X is really dumb, and I'm not a fan of Twitter personally... But twitters reputation shouldn't be completely obliterated because of who now owns it. Not that it matters, I guess, because there's no way people don't know X was once Twitter.

    So I don't know, guess I don't care either way. But X is dumb.

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