> Twitter (I refuse to call it X)
Same energy as "I refuse to call it Meta"? I wonder why such thinking takes hold in the first place. It is fascinating someone would so invested in products like they'd be in sports, for example.
Same energy as "I refuse to call it Meta"? I wonder why such thinking takes hold in the first place. It is fascinating someone would so invested in products like they'd be in sports, for example.
Meta is different. Meta is an umbrella company, Facebook is one of its holdings. There's a legal distinction to be made, because Facebook isn't so foolish as to set fire to their most lucrative brand.
Seemed to be "repost" when I looked the other day. Not even branded.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomon_Brothers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salomon_Brothers#Acquisition_b...
I think the culture, reputation, and infamy of the firm was so huge that people continued to subscribe to that history
Both seem like scooby doo mask rebrand. Nothing substantial, just a costume over the bad guy. The rebranding is mostly to confuse masses and put some distance between them and what they did yesterday.
A lot of people see the rebranding similar to a billionaire buying their town and renaming it.
In particular, when the UK Royal Mail renamed itself ‘Consignia’ (this actually happened; the early noughties were weird) everyone ignored that. This X business is similar, I think. Just so obviously stupid that most people will ignore it.
I don't quite get why people are so emotionally invested in brands like facebook/meta and twitter/x. at least from my perspective, it seems pretty easy to simply ignore them if you don't like what they're offering.
that said, I do have fairly strong feelings about comcast. I've lived in a few different places in my life, and in every one of them, comcast has been the only option for >5mbps down. their service and support sucked 15 years ago, and it still sucks today. I realize it has absolutely no measurable impact to their bottom line, but I'm still not going to help them get away from all the bad associations that go with the name "comcast".
More like still referring Alphabet as Google.
I also find it fascinating how one person can buy the communication platform 450 million people use, only for him to change it for the worst. And somehow all users should go along with it.
> More like still referring Alphabet as Google.
Facebook and Google are still the products. Meta and Alphabet are the parent company names. So it's not wrong. I don't know what X is supposed to be.
People that work for Alphabet? Googlers, who will all tell you they work for Google
Killed by alphabet? Nope, https://killedbygoogle.com/
Waymo, formerly the Google Self-Driving Car Project.
Etc. Frankly, the only time I hear about Alphabet, is in relation to stock price news, nevermore.
You mean the stock GOOGL?
You can roll your own at your leisure. In fact, everyone probably should if for no other reason than to ensure such communication platforms remain as neutral as possible.