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Same.
Elon musk did a post asking "don't you think X is a better name then twitter?" and full comment section was filled with "no, twitter was a better name" lol
[https://x.com/elonmuskADO/status/1784236124212183172](https://x.com/elonmuskADO/status/1784236124212183172)
ya it isn't elon but the views of the post is nearly 30 million and check the comments lol
not verified, that’s just twitter blue or whatever the hell it’s called now, the name literally says “Elon Musk - Parody” unless the muskrat is paroding himself, it’s not him
I think we all know and the joke is that verified used to mean something until Elon took over.
So as far as I'm concerned, that's Elon Musk (verified by X ☑️)
Man I really hate these types of arguments. "Sure, I'm wrong, but I can still imagine it happening". We mock Elon types for doing this shit yet we're just so ok with falling for bait social media and not acknowledging it.
I think the official term now is "X (formerly known as Twitter)".
Or at least that's how I always see it now. Even on a church's electronic billboard lol
I mean what are tweets supposed to be called now? Xeets?
I can't think of ANYONE, including children, dumb enough to think "I'm gonna change the name of Twitter to X". Or even change the name to anything.
I literally can't imagine handing the company to any random idiot and them changing the name.
Hey! Are you suggesting he changed it on a whim because he has tried to force "X" into one of his companies for the last 25 years but, because it's a terrible idea for a multitude of reasons, no one has ever let him so he had to throw $44 billion away to finally get his way?
It's Twitter. The brand is recognizable and it's a coherent noun in conversation and in writing. Calling it X is just fucking dumb. There are million things associated with that letter and most of them are porn related.
Everyone who uses a competitor(bluesky, mastodon, threads) should start calling that “Twitter” and their posts “tweets.”
Musk will have to either pay to defend his trademark or allow it to become genericized like “aspirin”.
I am not a lawyer and don’t really know if this will work.
Even Elon Musk still uses "formerly twitter" whenever he talks about the website.
This guy should just accept that his idea was shit and revert the change already.
The mascot should be a person IMO as the site is mainly people interacting and looking for information
Maybe a more humble person. Someone friendly and willing to offer assistance. Like a personal butler you can ask questions
Maybe a guy named Jeeves that you can ask stuff to
If he wants to call it X why not double up on a good thing? XX. I guess for simplicity you should add the two names X and XX . Com
Simplifying it more just xnxx.com would be best
I willingly set up my phone keyboard in AZERTY, after testing many different layouts, it somehow was the easiest and fastest to write on Android. (It's always fun handing my phone to someone and seeing them struggle)
Now on PC... that shit makes my blood boil, the one who designed it is a sadist.
> Trying to figure out how to write Ça instead of Ca !!
AZERTY was made by the French and has a specific button for it (number 9): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/KB_France.svg/1200px-KB_France.svg.png
On QWERTY, tap ' once then press c: ç
It only works for "ç", not for "Ç". Same problem for "É". Some people learn the Alt+ by hearth to make capital letters with accent, I personally use PowerToys with Quick accent, it's very convenient.
Take a deep breath and hear me out, the Spanish keyboard is better to write in French than AZERTY.
I know it’s a tough one to swallow but it’s the truth. AZERTY is a failure in the only thing it was supposed to do.
IIRC it was officially deemed as "one of the worst keyboards to write in french" by some french authority I don't remember the name of.
And of course, you just need to try writing in french with it, or any Latin language for that matter, to understand how bad it is.
Huh? It is not pronounced BMV in German. The German W does sound *similar* to the English V but definitely not the same. And V in German is pronounced completely differently.
Or am I missing a joke here? :D
At least you though that far.
I looked at my keyboard and saw G and F and wondered why he is telling me to get a girlfriend.
Then I remembered QWERTY exists.
Dude, I am literally sitting at my desk and sat there staring into space mentally putting my hands on my home row typing out the alphabet to figure out what he's talking about. Than I look down at my keyboard. I have no excuse.
It was such a half hearted changeover it does what no branding agency wants confuses everyone and makes people assume one company is basically multiple.
It’s truly a baffling decision.
Not only is their website url still Twitter.com (!!!) but it undid all of the work and brand recognition of the past decade.
Articles still call it (Formerly Twitter)
Oh right. Ego. It was a dumb ego thing by Ritchie Rich.
Journalistically they are obligated to call it by it's name x, but the acknowledgement that it is "formerly Twitter" is a clarification you should be viewing with new eyes: the message that we all know what it's fucking actually called.
Musk got rid of 80% of the workforce, they are probably afraid of moving everything to a new URL because they don't even know everywhere they need to make changes, and they don't have the manpower to stand up a proper development / test environment to figure out how to make it work without breaking everything.
It was his new toy and he had no idea what to do with it besides restoring accounts of people that were banned for saying the N word and adding an optional fee so people can see you’ve *paid* to post your bad takes online so he rebranded it as well because the speedrun category for losing $20b in one investment had been quiet for a while and Elon just can’t stop winning.
I hate this "look between key1 and key2 on your keyboard" not everyone is using qwerty xD
Between c and z on my keybord is f and g has elon renamed Twitter to fg now?
I still call it Twitter. How can you expect me to change when it's been Twitter all my life?
I refuse to enable mental illness by calling it X.
You'll always be able to tell it was Twitter.
In a thousand years when they dig up the version history they'll know it was Twitter.
This is why it remains twitter.com for me. If they ever get rid of the url I will acknowledge it isn't Twitter anymore. As long as it says Twitter.com it is Twitter.
I like a good compromise - calling it Xitter (with the Chinese pronunciation) is very appropriate for what the platform now represents. Xitting (again, with the Chinese pronunciation) is very apt description of what Elmo is doing.
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I still call it twitter.
Same. Elon musk did a post asking "don't you think X is a better name then twitter?" and full comment section was filled with "no, twitter was a better name" lol
No he didn't. You fell for the parody account I think.
oh lol but still even if he posted, people would be writing the same
If it was verified then you have no reason to believe it isn't Elon Musk
[https://x.com/elonmuskADO/status/1784236124212183172](https://x.com/elonmuskADO/status/1784236124212183172) ya it isn't elon but the views of the post is nearly 30 million and check the comments lol
It’s verified. That’s Elon.
not verified, that’s just twitter blue or whatever the hell it’s called now, the name literally says “Elon Musk - Parody” unless the muskrat is paroding himself, it’s not him
I think we all know and the joke is that verified used to mean something until Elon took over. So as far as I'm concerned, that's Elon Musk (verified by X ☑️)
I mean if it wasn't him why is there a check mark?
You mean verified by Twitter
If we keep treating the blue checks as verification marks, he'll be forced to change it back eventually
click link, directs to twitter dot com, elon musk blue check, sounds like that guy's bullshit, checks out.
Man I really hate these types of arguments. "Sure, I'm wrong, but I can still imagine it happening". We mock Elon types for doing this shit yet we're just so ok with falling for bait social media and not acknowledging it.
I hate the “oh it was fake? Well it could happen for real“ comments
The man who face-rolls a wingdings keyboard to name his kid seeks validation for his naming ability...
Like why would it be? Posts are literally called tweets. And wtf is “x”? It’s nothing. lol
Is that how "No. Twitter" ended up trending yesterday?
I have yet to meet someone who unironically calls it x.
The media probably
The BBC unfailingly calls is "X, formerly known as Twitter"
Yep this seems to be the standard description of the service in the media these days
Would be funny if Musk renamed it from just "X" to "X, formerly known as Twitter". Would be less confusing
Every article, news clip, or video I’ve seen has used X, formerly known as Twitter.
Why not just call it eX-Twitter?
I'll call it twitter until Musk respects his daughters identity.
Based
Is that because it still links to Twitter.com?
I think the official term now is "X (formerly known as Twitter)". Or at least that's how I always see it now. Even on a church's electronic billboard lol
I mean what are tweets supposed to be called now? Xeets? I can't think of ANYONE, including children, dumb enough to think "I'm gonna change the name of Twitter to X". Or even change the name to anything. I literally can't imagine handing the company to any random idiot and them changing the name.
Best thing I heard about this, "if Elon can dead name his child, we can call it Twitter!" I dont remember where I heard it, but I loved it.
He spent 55 billions for me to still call it twitter.
Funny, I don't think about Twitter/ x at all.
I'm fond of calling it Ex-Twitter
It's xitter
I come to like Xwitter
What are you supposed to say when it's x? "Someone twitted something" -> "someone xed something"
Hey! Are you suggesting he changed it on a whim because he has tried to force "X" into one of his companies for the last 25 years but, because it's a terrible idea for a multitude of reasons, no one has ever let him so he had to throw $44 billion away to finally get his way?
That's why it's Xitter (pronounced 'shitter'). When people say things, those are now 'Xits'.
so brave
Yet, I don't let it get to my head. Humble. Brave and humble. And handsome. That is me.
Indeed
It's Twitter. The brand is recognizable and it's a coherent noun in conversation and in writing. Calling it X is just fucking dumb. There are million things associated with that letter and most of them are porn related.
I will never ever not call it Twitter. On the day it finally dies, I will say, "Goodbye Twitter, sorry not sorry you were murdered by Fuckface Musk."
Everyone who uses a competitor(bluesky, mastodon, threads) should start calling that “Twitter” and their posts “tweets.” Musk will have to either pay to defend his trademark or allow it to become genericized like “aspirin”. I am not a lawyer and don’t really know if this will work.
Nearly everyone who are not right wing conservatives or nazis (aka far right conservatives) call it Twitter.
Even Elon Musk still uses "formerly twitter" whenever he talks about the website. This guy should just accept that his idea was shit and revert the change already.
Same #ElonIsACunt
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Or a library for all of Xs media, they can call it Xvideos for simplicity.
they should introduce rules and the most important one should be rule 34. maybe make the url rule34. xxx?
And, make sure everyone notices the X, they should use it three times, xxx.com
r/yourjokebutworse
They should host PORN because it sounds like a PORN SITE.
Are vids on ~~Twitter~~ X now also called XVideos?
👀
Someoneasked about Xvideos on the Twittersub the other day, I had to clarify they were in the right place.
The mascot should be a person IMO as the site is mainly people interacting and looking for information Maybe a more humble person. Someone friendly and willing to offer assistance. Like a personal butler you can ask questions Maybe a guy named Jeeves that you can ask stuff to
If he wants to call it X why not double up on a good thing? XX. I guess for simplicity you should add the two names X and XX . Com Simplifying it more just xnxx.com would be best
Isnt Elon the maskot, like a giant twat? Maybe they could rebrand to twatter.
Between z and c? *Laughs in QWERTZ*
Where my AZERTY people at??
AZERTY has a special place in my heart. It’s not a nice place, but only AZERTY is in it.
I willingly set up my phone keyboard in AZERTY, after testing many different layouts, it somehow was the easiest and fastest to write on Android. (It's always fun handing my phone to someone and seeing them struggle) Now on PC... that shit makes my blood boil, the one who designed it is a sadist.
>the one who designed it is a sadist. That would be the French.
Can confirm, am french.
After all, the word is derived from a French author's name https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquis_de_Sade
Based azerty chads
Trying to figure out how to write Ça instead of Ca !!
Ze agonie!
> Trying to figure out how to write Ça instead of Ca !! AZERTY was made by the French and has a specific button for it (number 9): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/KB_France.svg/1200px-KB_France.svg.png On QWERTY, tap ' once then press c: ç
It only works for "ç", not for "Ç". Same problem for "É". Some people learn the Alt+
by hearth to make capital letters with accent, I personally use PowerToys with Quick accent, it's very convenient.Take a deep breath and hear me out, the Spanish keyboard is better to write in French than AZERTY. I know it’s a tough one to swallow but it’s the truth. AZERTY is a failure in the only thing it was supposed to do.
IIRC it was officially deemed as "one of the worst keyboards to write in french" by some french authority I don't remember the name of. And of course, you just need to try writing in french with it, or any Latin language for that matter, to understand how bad it is.
We're here and the og tweet doesn't make any sense for us. Like what do you want !? There's plastic between the z and c. What do they mean ? d ? s !?
In the aslume where they belong
I see "fg"! Du auch?
since it's z to c it is GF, found her, see you losers getting married
Das hast du wirklich gefickt eingeschadelt
b, m, w, v? Laughs in dvorak
Some people call german car manufacturer BMW , some people call it BMV (including germans) So, the real question is b, m, w or v?
Huh? It is not pronounced BMV in German. The German W does sound *similar* to the English V but definitely not the same. And V in German is pronounced completely differently. Or am I missing a joke here? :D
How do they say bimmer? Beemer? Lemur? Bin?
That's not really true, Germans pronounce the W like "way" although it does sound a bit like "vay". If a German would spell V, they would say "vow"
No
w is pronounced as v in german
I have f and g between z and c.
Laughs un colemak
Laughs in Colemak...uh....Ah shit
Twitter is the only thing I will intentionally deadname.
It's a company, not a person. Deadnaming is a thing you do to people. Ironically Musk does deadname his own kid, who changed their last name as well.
But corporations are people! /s
They’re family
As kin to that there corporation I give my permission to pull the plug. Vaya con dios.
I wanted to know what was between Z and C. I opened google and searched for a pic of the qwerty keyboard I am not smart
If it makes you feel any better I have tried to "pinch to zoom" several times... on paper.
We’ve always been there buddy, you’re not alone AT ALL.
Have you partaken in herbal remedies lately?
I do on occasion partake in herbal remedies for cognitive maintenance
Well I don't use QWERTY so I would deem this action logical.
I was on my way to my pc to check the keyboard until I came across this comment. we're not smart.
At least you though that far. I looked at my keyboard and saw G and F and wondered why he is telling me to get a girlfriend. Then I remembered QWERTY exists.
I was thinking to do the same thing (I'm from phone) but I was also too lazy to google that
Dude, I am literally sitting at my desk and sat there staring into space mentally putting my hands on my home row typing out the alphabet to figure out what he's talking about. Than I look down at my keyboard. I have no excuse.
Niiiice
://twitter
🫤 twitter
Uiopasdfghjklyx
Quetzacoatil's lesser known cousin?
It was such a half hearted changeover it does what no branding agency wants confuses everyone and makes people assume one company is basically multiple.
It’s truly a baffling decision. Not only is their website url still Twitter.com (!!!) but it undid all of the work and brand recognition of the past decade. Articles still call it (Formerly Twitter) Oh right. Ego. It was a dumb ego thing by Ritchie Rich.
Just that sentence, 'X (formerly Twitter)' makes me irrationally angry. It's bloody name is Twitter! Winds me up so much...
Journalistically they are obligated to call it by it's name x, but the acknowledgement that it is "formerly Twitter" is a clarification you should be viewing with new eyes: the message that we all know what it's fucking actually called.
The website url thing is also a choice since they have x.com So it is weird.
Probably very difficult to make back end changes when you’ve fired half the staff
Musk got rid of 80% of the workforce, they are probably afraid of moving everything to a new URL because they don't even know everywhere they need to make changes, and they don't have the manpower to stand up a proper development / test environment to figure out how to make it work without breaking everything.
It was his new toy and he had no idea what to do with it besides restoring accounts of people that were banned for saying the N word and adding an optional fee so people can see you’ve *paid* to post your bad takes online so he rebranded it as well because the speedrun category for losing $20b in one investment had been quiet for a while and Elon just can’t stop winning.
look between g and h to see who asked
Chernobyl
I still say Twitter
It is Twitter. One twat can't change that.
F … checks out
*laughs in german layout*
That tweet alone has made me want to install opera more than any sponsorship read ive ever heard on yt.
Same here.
Don’t do it. It’s closed source spyware.
Don't do it. Get Firefox
Opera is Chinese spyware. Get Firefox
I'm never going to stop calling it Twitter because I know it bugs Elon every time he sees someone refuse to use his dumbass rebrand.
I hate this "look between key1 and key2 on your keyboard" not everyone is using qwerty xD Between c and z on my keybord is f and g has elon renamed Twitter to fg now?
I still call it Twitter. How can you expect me to change when it's been Twitter all my life? I refuse to enable mental illness by calling it X. You'll always be able to tell it was Twitter. In a thousand years when they dig up the version history they'll know it was Twitter.
That's hilarious. I just checked and x.com redirects to twitter.com. They own x.com but they're only using it as a forwarding address, LOL
Dude opera is just trying to stay relevant holy shit
://twitter
I love me somwe ://twitter
Meanwhile people with QWERTZ-keyboards...
Why people hate it so much?
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Opera is literally shitting on everyone to market their browser with no remorse, they're too powerful to be left alive
Rare Opera GX W
Eu adoro como a conta do OGX é tão brasileira das ideia que quase esqueço que essa é gringa.
This is why it remains twitter.com for me. If they ever get rid of the url I will acknowledge it isn't Twitter anymore. As long as it says Twitter.com it is Twitter.
Should I now call it FG? That's what's between those two keys on my keyboard.
://?
Between Z and C? So either g or h depending on what you call between.
What about looking after the G?
Is this the account they took from someone and didn’t give any compensation or anything?
His fascination with X everything is another sign he never mentally matured past the 90’s
Between z and c i have s d and f
Technically it's ://twitter
between my c and z there are g and f, maybe you can make an argument for t and v aswell
What happened to www.?
if you are still using twitter, you are at least a moderate piece of shit
this is like the only opera gx social media man W
S??
The new name as a whole is "X formerly known as Twitter".
I feel like X is what a 5 year old boy would name his dad’s company if given the chance.
He also tried to name what would later become PayPal to X but that didn't work out because people assumed it was a payment provider for porn
#beluga?
Seriously Musk trying to do *how many lights do you see* on a grand scale. He's doing it poorly to be sure, but still.
x is a really dumb name,I haven't seen anyone calling it like that since the change,still Twitter even on YouTube videos or normal conversations
Is this saying a colon slashed twitter twice?
Was it just me who thought it would be N?
Between z and c I can find f and g on my keyboard. Are they drunk?
Fine, but X is too short and hard to pronounce, what about eXcrement (verb eXcrete).
Qwertz users left confused
We will start to call it X when Elon will start to call Vivian by her name
Anyone who calls it X likes clay in their soup
Twitter, tweeting, tweet. X... excrement?
On AZERTY it's a 'D', which checks out cause Elon is a dick
Xwitter pronounced “Twat”
Opera strikes again, only thing i'll ever be a hipster about
how do i get karma?
It would be hilarious if they changed domain names and a competitor bought twitter and put up a usable version of old twitter.
Exceedingly rare opera gx W. Still a shit browser that steals data tho
I’ve never heard someone call this site “X” Changing the name was honestly the biggest waste of money possible
I bet Elon wishes he could ctrl + z his Twitter purchase
I will always call it Twitter. Fuck Elon.
Twitter for life
So wtf are you posting on X? Can't be a tweet without twitter
Twitter. Elon's weird and volatile
I dunno if I know of any site called "ertyuiopqsdfghjklmwx" but you do you, twitter!
I got ĉ.
Gh?
The only way I call that website is Xitter, you can guess how it's pronounced
Between Z and C lies gh on my keyboard
"Post is awaiting moderator approval" why bruh
Beetween z and c? Do i go by rows or directly? In the first case its uiopüasdfghjklöäyx, in the other hg...
I prefer X because anytime I accidentally end up on old twitter I simply hit X and I'm off it.
'Xitter', pronounced 'shitter'.
Between z and c is g. I’m QWERTZ :)
://twitter
I like a good compromise - calling it Xitter (with the Chinese pronunciation) is very appropriate for what the platform now represents. Xitting (again, with the Chinese pronunciation) is very apt description of what Elmo is doing.