X’s new terms of service insist that tweets are now posts

They had such a huge amount of brand recognition and vocabulary associated with their site and Elon just decided to kill that

I thought they were called xcretes

“The internet personality Xcreted daily, his xcretes had been re excreted over 20 000 times”

Thanks for keeping me up with the latest on Twitter and Elon Musk. I don't know how I even managed to live back when I went for months without thinking about either of these two.

And that’s an x post facto

Ok, as a compromise between a generic word and a specific name, I vote we call them Xcrement. (Verb: Xcrete) (Would nicely describe the average quality too)

I don't care

The Twitter brand is so totally not the problem here.

Gretchen, stop trying to make X happen. It's never going to happen.

A "post" on x will always be known as an Xcrete (verb, I Xcrete on X), and past tense will be an Xcrement. (Noun, I read an Xcrement on X)

Tweets are stupid as f. I can’t say it is wrong to kill the word tweet (barf) BUT the whole world knows wtf a tweet is.

Elon is going full on gen-x, this is generational battle royale to the max.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Users are starting to see pop-ups about new terms that go into effect on September 29th, and one adjustment is two instances of “retweet” (the only use of “tweet” in the current terms) to “repost,” essentially putting the final stamp in the death of the word tweet.

There are a bunch of other branding changes in the new terms, including a nearly wholesale removal of the word “Twitter” in favor of X. I say nearly wholesale because, hilariously, many of the URLs included in the terms still seemingly have to include the word “twitter,” like in this link to a developer-focused website: https://developer.x.com/en/docs/twitter-for-websites.

There have been some hints that X wants to fully switch over to URLs starring X, but it seems Twitter will hang around in some capacity.

References to Periscope, Twitter’s live streaming app it shut down in 2021, have been removed as well.

Another change moves language about misusing Twitter’s services to a new section, and updates it in a pointed ban against scraping, something that X owner Elon Musk really doesn’t like.

X is also planning to put a new privacy policy into place on September 29th.

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Sounds better than Xeets

Great job, Elon. He took one of the most distinctive things about Twitter, the fact that it had a unique verb for its posting type, and killed it. Way to destroy a brand.

There are a few other updates to the terms, too. One says that by using X, “to the extent permitted by law, you also waive the right to participate as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class action, collective action or representative action proceeding.”

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X is also planning to put a new privacy policy into place on September 29th. That new policy says X will expand the volume of data it collects on users, including biometric data and employment history.

Good thing I'm not there, don't care, am not affected. Lonnie is the best business man evar.

Wondering what will Elmo choose to do: redirect all requests from twitter.com to x.com, or push a 404 on the twitter.com domain just to force all the websites that still embed tweets, er, posts to acknowledge the new URL.

I call them skeets like our lord and savior Lil Jon intended

You done fucked up now

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It's Twitter. Stop calling it x, it will never be x. Why do people bootlick so hard for daddy musk? As soon as he tells you what to do, you just say thank you, and do what your told by daddy? It's fucking Twitter. They're tweets