xTwitter
Previously, it was a shithole.
Now, it's a Nazi shithole.
Don't call it anything. Ignore it and maybe it will go away.
I mean, it’s not like twitter was ever a beacon of glory, pre-Elon twitter was still twitter
Twitter was a turd. X is a turd marinaded in diarrhea sauce.
Such poetry. It brings a tear to my eye
Ok well maybe a beacon of glory is a bit out there for Twitter, but there was a time where it was actually cool and unique.
Like back in the day where you could interact with it over plain SMS lol
I feel old.
Hey, don't rewrite history - twitter was always notoriously bad, under Elon it surely got even worse though.
Sorry twitter was always trash
It really is saying something that it's waaay worse now.
There is simple solution: just ignore it. Don't refer to it in any way.
I present: Xitter
"X" in Chinese is pronounced "sh", so I approve.
Xitter (pronounced shitter)
Stylized as 𝕏itter
Twitter is no worse today than five years ago. But it’s certainly also no better. The discussion about which billionaires we want manipulating public discourse is outright insanity
I don't want to call it X because it's a shit shit shit name
For me, it’s simpler than that: I’m gonna deadname his company as long as he keeps deadnaming his daughter
I hadn't been there in a long while, but a friend sent a link to what he said was a funny tweet. It was, but the responses were just awful, and they all had blue checkmarks.
Every single inserted ad was for right-wing grifts (crypto, t-shirts, gold coins, etc) or awful right-wing politicians looking angry or posing with guns.
Noped right out.
I pointed it out to my wife, but she says the journalists she follows are still all there. 🤷🏻♂️
They have $44 billion dollar bills to wipe away the tears.
It's not like it was a hostile take over. They played their part when Musk talked shit and they sued him to follow through with the purchase. They could have easily kept it, but they wanted the money instead.
Not that they are blameless - far from it - but they had a fiduciary responsibility to pursue the deal because it was good for their shareholders
That’s not the case at all, though it’s very often believed to be and stated as such on here and Reddit.
"Fiduciary duty to get profit" is a libertarian myth. It has no legal basis.
People now have fond memories of twitter? Insane.
I don't understand why anyone would care this much about a social media website
Twitter was always bad. It is of course way worse now, but it is silly to have any nostalgic and reverential feelings for it.
But Twitter has always been shit.
Not really. It was fun to talk to people that you barely knew. It was kinda like a hybrid of a chatroom and a forum.
But it grew to become shit.
Those people sold it to musk. They were tech bros whose goal from the start was to get a massive buyout and bail. They don't deserve your respect anymore than musk does.
I mean lets not overdo it the algorithms were becoming very trash before it was bought up but it was usable. Peak twitter was like 2017
The way I look at it, if Elon Musk is gonna deadname his own child, I'm sure as shit gonna deadname the corporation he tanked
The following is a tremendously disproportionate analogy given that we're talking about a microblogging website, but I really don't think there's any better term for it:
It's really less like you're calling Twitter by its deadname and more like you're refusing to call it by its slave name. Twitter didn't come up with this on its own, some guy just rolled up and said "I'm changing your name because yours isn't cool enough." Like, fukken Kunta Kinte.
Again, very unfortunate that that's the only comparison that comes to mind but I'm really blanking on anything else. Jean Valjean, I guess. Maybe Darth Vader. Locutus of Borg.
I mean, what you personally call it isn't really going to make any difference, so if we're trying to optimize your mental health, just reframe the naritive in your head. You're still calling it Twitter to honor what it used to be, back when you respected it. You are refusing to acknowledge the nazi dumpster fire it has become, even if you still need to talk about it.
I personally basically never have a reason to mention the site when taking to another person, but if/when I do, I'll call it Twitter just because I think it would annoy Elon, if he somehow knew.
We should call it "X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter." Every time. Yes it sounds ridiculous, because it is.
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