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Just keep saying Twitter. The name change will inevitably be reverted when it's sold in a few years.

It will go down in history as "X, formerly known as Twitter."

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The artist formerly known as Prince and Pluto, the heavenly body formerly known as a planet.

> The artist formerly known as Prince

Who of course, went back to using the name Prince once his contract dispute was over, which meant he could be the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince.

I’d say it’s likely that it’ll go down in history as Twitter; traditionally really bad rebrands are reversed, and swiftly forgotten. For instance, did you know that the UK Royal Mail was called Consignia for about a year in the noughties?

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