Best name to call it is to just not call it anything. Don't talk about it. Let it die.
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2024
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This isn't a shower thought
Sure was.
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
Twitter was always bad. It is of course way worse now, but it is silly to have any nostalgic and reverential feelings for it.
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. 🤷🏻♂️
Previously, it was a shithole.
Now, it's a Nazi shithole.
I present: Xitter
"X" in Chinese is pronounced "sh", so I approve.
Calling twix, or xitter! You can also call it Elon's X (he has many exes, so this one fits in)
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
Hey, don't rewrite history - twitter was always notoriously bad, under Elon it surely got even worse though.
There is simple solution: just ignore it. Don't refer to it in any way.
They have $44 billion dollar bills to wipe away the tears.
Sorry twitter was always trash
It really is saying something that it's waaay worse now.
Can we start calling it Bluesky?
For me, it’s simpler than that: I’m gonna deadname his company as long as he keeps deadnaming his daughter
What's up with his daughter? Did she decide to switch name because he gave her a stupid one?
She was a boy. Now she's a girl. Daddy didn't take it so well.
Read to the tune of Sk8er boi by Avril Lavigne
She was a boy,
He's just a douche.
Can I make it any more obvious?
Ah ty
Mmh... nope, don't care, my neurons has already a "twitter" thing in memory, devoting 0 additional effort in anything related to that thing
I don't understand why anyone would care this much about a social media website
They don’t. Rather, they believe that others do, so posts like this are simply signaling alliance.
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.
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