• katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Things are going great, Linda

    Also can news outlets please stop referring to Twitter as X? X is the stupidest name I’ve ever heard.

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      X is really dumb, and I’m not a fan of Twitter personally… But twitters reputation shouldn’t be completely obliterated because of who now owns it. Not that it matters, I guess, because there’s no way people don’t know X was once Twitter.

      So I don’t know, guess I don’t care either way. But X is dumb.

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      It’s the official name so the news is obliged. Your brain can handle this detail I’m sure.

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        Yeah, it’s just like when Prince changed his name. The media will just keep going “X, formerly known as Twitter” forever.

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          Prince changed his name to an unprinteable character so they had no choice.

          As I recall, some of the media used the short form TAFKAP (the artist formerly known as Prince).

          As for xtwitter, I vote for FKT. Pronounced as a word.

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            Close. He changed his name to a symbol. It was probably to get out of a recording contract, but the particular symbol he chose was non printable.