I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was.

Don't call it anything. Ignore it and maybe it will go away.

I mean, it’s not like twitter was ever a beacon of glory, pre-Elon twitter was still twitter

Xitter (pronounced shitter)

Sorry twitter was always trash

There is simple solution: just ignore it. Don't refer to it in any way.

It's not like it was a hostile take over. They played their part when Musk talked shit and they sued him to follow through with the purchase. They could have easily kept it, but they wanted the money instead.

Hey, don't rewrite history - twitter was always notoriously bad, under Elon it surely got even worse though.

For me, it’s simpler than that: I’m gonna deadname his company as long as he keeps deadnaming his daughter

But Twitter has always been shit.

People now have fond memories of twitter? Insane.

They have $44 billion dollar bills to wipe away the tears.

I don't understand why anyone would care this much about a social media website

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.

The way I look at it, if Elon Musk is gonna deadname his own child, I'm sure as shit gonna deadname the corporation he tanked

Previously, it was a shithole.
Now, it's a Nazi shithole.

I mean, what you personally call it isn't really going to make any difference, so if we're trying to optimize your mental health, just reframe the naritive in your head. You're still calling it Twitter to honor what it used to be, back when you respected it. You are refusing to acknowledge the nazi dumpster fire it has become, even if you still need to talk about it.

I personally basically never have a reason to mention the site when taking to another person, but if/when I do, I'll call it Twitter just because I think it would annoy Elon, if he somehow knew.

I present: Xitter

Twitter is gone. It died the day Elon fired most of its staff.

We should call it "X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter." Every time. Yes it sounds ridiculous, because it is.

I have despised twitter since basically its inception.

1. The character (original) character limit fundamentally means you are strongly encouraged to limit conversation to basically soundbites, slogans, and pithy comments. Even though this was changed later, it still created a culture that generally mocks anything long winded.

While its true that brevity is the soul of wit, wit is not the same thing as a detailed and nuanced discussion of a complex topic.

It thus lends itself to being an optimal tool for political slogans, celebrity gossip, and direct corporate advertisement.

2. Twitter is far, far, faaar too open ended, as in one to many kind of network connections. Its a dream come true also for narcissistic, attention seeking individuals who want to win Twitter.

3. Twitter blew up before Facebook completely shifted (enshittified?) their entire model from being focused on actually connecting friend groups, and directly pushed Facebook toward just being an unmitigated firehose of 'content' from every which way, which just became the norm for 'social media' design.

Of course X now is even fucking worse, but I am so glad its dying.

The way I see it, Twitter contributed heavily toward destroying the older, more personal formats of social media, it helped destroy the old forum culture of the net where people had communities and a measure of intellect, privacy and respect.

It took the sincerity out of online discourse, and was foundational in shifting the internet from a 'place' with lots of weird locales, into some kind of Eldritch god's sick joke of a species level omni-mirror, reducing online humanity to a popularity contest of political slogans, narcissistic clout chasers, gossip mongers, and corporate sloganeering and brand worship... and giving all of this to us in an undifferentiated constant flow.

Twitter was no better than x lol

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

I like xitter… which someone told me was pronounced “shitter”. Seems right.

Call it “eX-Twitter”.

Call it "the app formerly known as twitter". It's what the media does. It would piss off Elon, and it has a whole prince vibe to it.

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 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. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I don't want to call it X because it's a shit shit shit name

Elon will buy Reddit next and rename it to Xit. Pronounced like...

Best name to call it is to just not call it anything. Don't talk about it. Let it die.

Xerox.

Calling twix, or xitter! You can also call it Elon's X (he has many exes, so this one fits in)

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

Twitter was always bad. It is of course way worse now, but it is silly to have any nostalgic and reverential feelings for it.

Xcrement. It's called Xcrement.

xTwitter

Can we start calling it Bluesky?

I always call it 'X, the everything app.'

Xlon’s Twitter

Shitter

This isn't a shower thought