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I wish people would reject this brand, as with the-company-formerly-known-as-facebook. Pity.

>>ergona+(OP)
There should be a higher bar for company names than co-opting a dictionary word or even just a letter. The lack of originality seems to be accelerating: first "Alphabet", then "Meta", and now "X"? (Honorable mention for "Apple".)

>>bqmjjx+j6
But Apple has been named Apple for, what, five decades? And besides, “Apple Computer Corp.” was surely better than “Computronics Inc.” or whatever was in vogue at that time.

>>nocoin+T6
Just think of what Steve Job would have called his next computer company…

>>ergona+(OP)
You have only control over yourself. I will never call this anything but Twitter, same way I've never called Facebook and Google anything else.

>>bqmjjx+j6
I don't know how true this is, but the story was always that the Steves chose "Apple" because it was ahead of "Atari" in the phone book.

I hope it's true. But these things often turn out to be myths.

>>hsjqll+W7
To be fair, Google didn’t change its name like the others. Some subsidiaries that used to be under Google just moved out into a parent umbrella company. Google still exists and contains basically all of the products it used to, and none of the branding changed.

>>ergona+(OP)
I think it's time for news organizations to boycott Twitter now