• Mighty@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    you know what I always stan for? “former Twitter”. I just love that shit! I hope it always stays like this to show that the rebranding didn’T work

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      3 months ago

      I’ve been thinking we need to get aspirational and take it to the next level:

      Instead of “X (formally know as Twitter)”, the time has come for “Twitter (currently called X)”.

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        3 months ago

        just call it twitter. literally everyone knows what it is, and twitter.com still redirects there so who gives a shit what he’s calling it. don’t show his site the courtesy he doesn’t show to his own daughter.

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        3 months ago

        I’m not a fan of the company, but at least this one has a handful of different platforms underneath it - Oculus, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook. Having Facebook the product and Facebook the overarching company kind of ads a little complication.

        I don’t quite feel the same way about Alphabet/Google, but at least that’s more subtle.

        X can fuck the duck right off.

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        3 months ago

        I still call it Facebook. Meta is equally stupid as X. Meta as a word already existed in multiple different ways. Now if you say ‘that’s meta’ you have to stop and think, which may be why I’ve seen that phrase really die out.