I’m genuinely curious about peoples thoughts on this.
It made sense for a while. But the branding change was 16 months ago. The URI change was 3 months ago. Everybody knows now what X is. Yet for some reason, I still see in news stories today:
“… on X — formerly known as Twitter — and said …”
I really don’t think that’s needed anymore. But I’m always one to want changes as fast and painless as possible.
So what do you think would be an appropriate amount of time to keep reminding everyone that Twitter is now X?
Months?
Years?
How many?
It’s still twitter now and always will be so it doesn’t matter.
No one likes their x
I see what you did there
Until the company is dead
They will just call it threads. Because that’s what they will use
Forever, unless they start calling it Xcom (which would then be confused with the game) X itself could also mean Xorg (https://x.org) which is a lot older. Not to mention that it looks like someone forgot to remove a placeholder “in the site X, many people talk about…”
How long was Prince “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince”?
Yeah, the rest of his life.
Twitter probably will have the same laid upon it.
You’re referring to the former artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince?
How long was Prince “The Artist Formerly Known as Prince”?
For about seven years, and then he went back to calling himself Prince again.
Prince changed his name to a literally unpronounceable logo. So in that case, there was no real other option.
If we say that the accepted pronunciation of “X” is “ex” then we run into an even bigger problem than Prince’s logo.
“Ex” User says… Is this a former user of the website or current?
A user on the website “ex” is too long winded and sounds like I’m saying a hypothetical.
Users on “ex” - although shorter, X is a street name for ecstacy and user is sometimes used as shorthand for drug user (e.g. User and abuser) so why should we be listening to a cracked out party kid?
The golden ticket is “formerly Twitter” because we actually know what the fuck that one is.
I’m willing to bet there’s at least one X user on X right now.
Some places tried calling him “The Artist”, but it never stuck. Not even “The Artist formerly known as Prince” stuck. But “Prince” has endured to his grave and beyond.
I keep seeing people call it “X, the Everything App” and ngl it’s funny every single time
Twitter, formerly known as X
It will always be Twitter to me
I dunno. but I wonder if he owns xvideos.
Forever, because X looks like a placeholder and media wants to be clear so they use the name that people actually associate with that trash website. It will never just be X because it is a terrible name for a business.
Also shitter, xitter, shitler.
That dumbfuck tryin so hard is so funny though…
It’s like he has the concept of jumping
Is he trying to look like the letter “X”?
Yes 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
and so the cycle repeats, i see…
It will always be Twitter to me. X is a variable in a math problem… not a company name. Oh, I’m also lazy and have never used Twitter.
I have been mentally keeping track how often I see “formerly Twitter” and I’m surprised that it’s lasted this long tbh
Without another name change, I don’t think that phrase will ever go away, for the simple fact that X as a name is too short and nondescript. In speech, X could refer to a someone you broke up with, or it could just be the beginning of another word, serving as a prefix. In text, it could refer to the actual letter itself, or the close button on a window, or a placeholder, or something NSFW.
There’s simply too many ways that X can be interpreted that even if people associate Twitter with X, people will still specify “formerly Twitter” just to avoid confusion
I don’t think the platform will last long enough to care. In a year or two it’ll be “X, formely known an Twitter, currently remembered as Elon’s clusterfuck.”
