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1. kzrdud+Ta[view] [source] 2026-01-07 12:20:00
>>maelit+(OP)
I see that many of you still call it twitter. I get if it's a protest, but current X seems very unlike twitter, so I don't understand why it should be called by that name.
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2. ImPost+tb[view] [source] 2026-01-07 12:23:33
>>kzrdud+Ta
The term "X" is already in common usage: primarily as a letter. If I said "I saw on X" out loud, most people would have no idea what I was talking about; "They saw on _a letter_?"; "Are they saying some kind of algebra?"; "Did they forget where they saw it and X is a placeholder?"; etc.

You could disambiguate by saying "X Dot Com", but that's longer and more awkward to say than Twitter.

Essentially, "X" as a name for Twitter is a confusing, poorly-forced meme that most folks don't care to entertain.

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