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For the same reason I still called Alphabet - Google, and Meta - Facebook. I refuse to let large corporations just try and shake off their shitty past with a name change.
Adding Xfinity - Comcast to this list
See also:
- Constellis Holdings, née Academi, née Xe Services, née Blackwater (mercenary group owned by right-wing politicians)
- Altria, née Philip Morris (tobacco manufacturer)
- CoreCivic, née Corrections Corporation of America (private prison operator)
- Chiquita, née United Fruit Company and Cuyamel Fruit Company (overthrew the government of Honduras, among other things)
Having fallen in love with Carmen Miranda before reading La United Fruit Company stilllll sucks.
Also add Blackwater to this list. Warcrimes and looting by American plutocratic mercenaries and now their name is not obviously pronounceable. They did an amazingly good [bad for everyone but them] rename.
Also add Blackwater to this list.
They’ve changed names so many times I guess you missed that it was already there:
- Constellis Holdings, née Academi, née Xe Services, née Blackwater
Oh. My. Fucking. God.
Is there a makemesuffer community (with more than 0 posts)? Because that’s where this belongs. Jesus Christ.
Are you a knight who says Nee?
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I so very much appreciate your use of née
Kinda shocked that the most hated company on Lemmy (Nеstlé) hasn’t tried their luck at this game yet
I guess Nestlé isn’t hated enough by the general public yet. We need to step up our game.
I honestly think ‘X’ has more stink on it than ‘Twitter’ which is why I’ve been happy to start referring to it as ‘X’.
I don’t think continuing to call it ‘Twitter’ hurts Elon one bit.
Didn’t the Alphabet rebranding happen because boomer investors were confused about which Google stock to invest in?
Theirs actually made a bit more sense. They didn’t try to actually get people to use the new name, because it was a business restructure, not a “brand” restructure.
For business management purposes, it didn’t make sense for a search engine company to do things like “own a car company”. So they split the business units up and made things a little more organized. They ran into some name issues because the most recognizable face of the company is so strongly associated with search, and they didn’t want to mess with that, so they made a new name for the top.
Companies do stuff like that all the time, but it usually doesn’t raise to public attention because it doesn’t happen to major brands, or hit the top level of the business.
They still label all their stuff Google, and their stock ticker is still googl.
Which Google stocks are there?
GOOG and GOOGL
don’t ask me the difference, I didn’t understand in my two minutes on Wikipedia, but I’m sure there’s an article that could explain.
It is always correct to Dead Name corporations.
It’s also correct to Deadname Super Villains who think “Eggman” is somehow more intimidating than “Robotnik”
I’m always shocked to see Tumblr talking about current events because I forget there’s people still there
I mean gestures broadly at our own tiny userbase
Yeah but I can still see butt sex here
Hell yeah we can
Oh no it’s broken for me! I’m going to assume it was buttsex and just shake your hand now
Other hand plz
Look at mr. Lemmy talking down a way bigger service as if Lemmy is more relevant outside of their little bubble.
Yeah but we’re cooler.
But are we queerer
God knows we try, but…
It is true. We should petition the devs to add a gottem medal, and we could pay to get these meda- Wait.
Lol I never said this website is bigger
Yes but you made fun of it as if it has just a few users left
Yes. Yes I did. And it really isn’t that deep but the website I’m making that comment on isn’t really relevant to the little joke I made about Tumblr.
That site is as dead as Reddit to me now. I don’t care whatever it’s called
Only as dead as Reddit? Reddit is still a fresh corpse while Twitter has only a few decaying bones left.
Unfortunately it still has a critical mass user base, like reddit, so still here to stay until Elon really fucks up again.
Like you can try to use Mastodon or Blue sky but all the accounts I’ve wanted to follow are just people posting a few times with zero interactions, and then going back to Twitter.
just people posting a few times with zero interactions
At least they tried. The YouTube creators I used to follow on Twitter only kept complaining about the changes on Twitter but never cared to try anything else. That was until Threads came out. It’s as if they want to live in a corporate shithole…
Corporate shitholes have the most people, which means more views, which means more money. They’re actively encouraged to stay off smaller platforms since it’s not as an effective use of their time.
The Fediverse just hasn’t hit critical mass yet.
Yeah people don’t realise what shithole these two have become
Twitter has been a shithole since it’s inception.
Reddit only became a shithole like five or six years ago.
I’m just sick of every article in existence calling it “X formally known as Twitter” like what’s the point, just either say X or say twitter it’s filler bullshit to extend the article.
I see that as a kind of professional fu to Elon. As in “We know we need to call it X now, but since nobody actually does that, we’ll also add the actual name”.
indeed. i like to believe he hates when we do that
“Twitter, also known by some as X”
This is the way.
Xitter is also acceptable in my book as long as pronunciation is left to the reader.
Obviously shitter
It probably helps searchability, since now there is a fracture of people looking up ‘X news’ and ‘Twitter news’
I really don’t have a passionate stance about it, I just know I called it Twitter for ages, X is shitty branding and isn’t going to work, and I stopped using the platform well before Musk took over, so I’m not doing any sort of mental labor trying to make myself use the crap name he chose.
It’s a dead website to me, and it’s everyone else’s problem that they trapped themselves on Twitter, having no career without it. I’m not doing a single thing on behalf of anybody who is still there, those are ghosts, let them howl in the attic, I don’t work here.
It’s not a human person. It’s a website full of assholes. I would make an effort for a transitioning person, but not for Elon Musk and his ham-fisted stupidity, for the folly of some wealthy prick.
It’s Twitter until I forget what it’s called.
“Xwitter”
The X is like a fallen over t. Like twitter, falling apart.
I liked what one person said I forget where I saw it of calling it Xitter and pronouncing it like Shitter.
That’s pretty good. I might steal that.
The name is “X, formerly known as twitter”
Thats it. Thats the whole name.
The Website Formerly Known As Twitter.
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X is too short and generic. It is literally just a letter.
I call it X(уйня)
I’m partial to Xitter
Can you spell that phonetically
shitter
I prefer Xhitter myself
“Xitter”. It pronounces almost like “Shitter”.
“X” letter is pronounced as “shh” sound in China for example Liu Cixin, the Chinese author of Three Body Problem, his last name supposed to be spelled “Cishin”. So there is precedent.
I call it excrement.
That’s a shit poem.
Where’s the excrement ode!?
No almost about it. It’s Shitter and that’s final.
This is the way.
I also use this but I recently spelled it “Xhitter” and I think that might sell the pronunciation even better.
I started typing xxx and found new sites I enjoy more.
Lot of birds on those as well
Shitter, clearly the only acceptable name.
Won’t even use it for porn now.
My Aussie friend calls it ‘a platform from a cunt for a bunch of cunts’. I think I’ll go with that.
Ah yeah, that one’s getting around and it’s right on point.
