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[–] 248 points 3 years ago (5 children)

I'm gonna call it Twitter even harder now.

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

    i'm going to stop calling it twitter when twitter.com redirects to x.com, and not the other way around

    at that point i would stop talking about it, because X is just too stupid

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

    His obsession with the letter X is like that middle school kid who used to talk about how many girlfriends he got and how good he is at being a bad ass...

    Basically, he's a less likeable version of Zane from Hypnospace Outlaw.

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

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. If you want him to fail, help him destroy Twitter’s brand.

    Call it X.

    I has worse brand recognition, terrible brand loyalty, and if only highlights that the product has changed for the worse.

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    [–] 168 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (7 children)
    1. I'm sorry, but due to cultural norms the name Twitter is rooted deep within our modern language.

    2. [PERSUASION] Maybe a free little blue check will do the trick

    3. Or what?

    4. [INTIMIDATION] drop your daughter's dead name and I'll drop your site's.

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  • [–] 60 points 3 years ago (11 children)
    1. [THE DARK URGE] Imagine feeding Elon to a large flightless bird.
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  • [–] 31 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    Narrator: You imagine throwing a burlap sack over his head. His underlings would be extremely displeased with you, but he wouldn't put up much of a fight himself.

    Narrator: You can think of someone who would be extremely pleased with your offering, however.

    Elon: You're looking at me funny. Is there something you need?

    1. [THE DARK URGE] Give in to your desires.

    2. [PERSUASION] I have an investment opportunity that I think you would be interested in.

    3. Can I see your wares?

    4. No, nothing. I was just lost in thought.

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    [–] 167 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    The only thing that gets me hard is billionaires not getting their way.

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

    So when you win the Powerball you'll have to be a masochist to fuck?

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    [–] 126 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    The problem is, is that if you engage with anyone outside of the internet, they have no fucking idea what you're talking about when you call it "X".

    It's so fucking stupid of a name. Even worse than Facebook changing to Meta.

    You can ask people to call it "X" all day, every day, but you can't just change the name of your brand/product to a single letter, that people use every day for other things, and expect it to work out for you.

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  • [–] 77 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    Facebook the product is still Facebook. The only name that changed was that of the company that owns Facebook, which makes sense as that holding company also runs other products like Instagram.

    Google made a similar move in 2015 when it created Alphabet to hold the non Google parts of Google.

    In both cases the renaming was on the coorporate side. They made no effort to loose the old trademark, and continue to operate under it today.

    The only high profile case that comes to mind that is simmilar to Twitter is when Comcast rebranded itself as Xfinity in 2010. In that case, it worked because: A) Comcasts reputation was way worse than Twitters and B) people don't have that much of an option anyway. In the otherhand, the rebranding failed in the sense that everyone still knows them as Comcast.

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    [–] 113 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (9 children)

    When I go to x.com I end up on twitter.com

    So Elon says it's 𝕏 but my browser still says it's Twitter

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    [–] 95 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    I'm so tired of these woke CEOs and their snowflake whining over misgendering their companies. There's the name that a company is assigned at birth, and I'll be damned if I'm going to change the way I've always called them (for my whole life and ALL of god-fearing Christian history) because some liberal snowflake CEO one-day wakes up and simply declares, "twitter is now X" ffs.

    The facts of the birth incorporation certificate, DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS little pissant mUsK... GET OVER IT!

    /s since satire is dead.

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

    Image Transcription:

    X post by user The Chaser @chaser reading: 'Stop calling it Twitter' says guy who deadnames his own child. Underneath is a photo of Elon Musk's face with a barely visible Tesla logo in the background and the link to the article at chaser.com.au

    [I am a human, if I’ve made a mistake please let me know. Please consider providing alt-text for ease of use. Thank you. πŸ’œ]

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    [–] 72 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Legend says if you say Twitter 13 times inside of a Tesla at 4:20am, Elon Musk will appear inside the car

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    [–] 65 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    X is a fucking stupid name

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    [–] 59 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    Sure Elon, I can provide this service to you for just $8/month. It's great value honestly, I have expenses to continue to run my life and just $8 will happily contribute towards that.

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

    lol so funny this guy thinks we're just gonna stop calling it Twitter

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    [–] 47 points 3 years ago*

    No. I'm exercising my Musk-given right of ultimate free speech and will continue calling it Twitter, just because I feel like it. Musk would be proud of me standing up against censorship. Oh wait..

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

    ... And all of this could have been avoided if he just renamed it "Twitter by X", so make Twitter part of the X super-app that he wanted to build.

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    [–] 43 points 3 years ago

    I could call it that but then nobody would know what the fuck I'm talking about. Maybe at least pick a name that's unique?

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  • [–] 41 points 3 years ago

    Yep. One of many reasons I'm not catering to the whims of a billionaire and calling it what he wants it to be called. It's going to continue to be Twitter as far as I'm concerned.

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

    ... hold on this mf has TEN kids

    which... one? we're not talking about Grime's baby are we?

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    [–] 35 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    "i'm so sick of this annoying guy" say people who won't stop thinking or talking about this annoying guy.

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    [–] 35 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Damn, I've been doing it wrong! I thought X was pronounced TEN.

    #twitter sucks.

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    [–] 29 points 3 years ago (11 children)

    β€œI saw this tweet on ten today”

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    [–] 29 points 3 years ago

    No. In fact we should continue to make fun of it. It's stupid. Twitter was a hellsite before Elon. Now it's dying due to his stupid decisions. He's foing the things I used to joke about doing if i owned a website

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

    Is this a stock picture of Elon crying?

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