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WP --and everyone else-- should also stop calling it X, which is a ridiculous name, and go back to calling it Twitter.

I rather like X. It immediately reminds everyone about the midlife crisis that both the service and its new owner are publicly going through.

Elon Musk’s Personal Blog, sometimes called X

Same I like it because it sucks and I think it’s great fun to laugh at the fact Elon thinks it’s cool.

It'd be funner (and would annoy Elon) if everyone didn't go along with it.

I go with more of a Prince vibe, the website formerly known as Twitter.

I think we should use the nickname Musk’s Folly.

Xanadu fits, IMO

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanadu_(Citizen_Kane)#Cultural...

BBC seems to consistently use "X, formerly known as Twitter" throughout their publishing.

I think there's a transition period, as with Meta and Alphabet. For as long as it's all hosted on the twitter.com domain, it doesn't really make sense to abandon the name Twitter.

Ex-Twitter, in other words.

Elon should have done what Mark did. Create a parent org called X and put Twitter into it. Twitter is a great brand, I hope they revert it.

> WP --and everyone else-- should also stop calling it X, which is a ridiculous name, and go back to calling it Twitter.

I think people get cancelled when you don't use the name they wish to be called. That would be ironic.

Companies are allowed to change their names. If we didn’t roll with it then FANG would be something like TCKB (The Facebook, Cadabra, Kibble, BackRub).

Sometimes it just doesn't work. My favourite was Price Waterhouse changing their name to everyone's favourite day of the week, Monday.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2163472.stm

I didn’t know about that one - and that article/obit is a great find, thanks for sharing. :) Funny thing is that Monday is now a productivity/team tool that I know a few people really like. Maybe they got a deal from PwC on the URL?

It was the peak of dotcom boom silliness. One of my friends worked there and said the company were beside themselves with glee that they’d bagged a six letter word dotcom domain name and had to use it.

Facebook renamed itself as Meta. Google renamed itself as Alphabet.

So it should be MANA.

MAMAA is a more recent acronym - Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet.

Updated FB/Google's names, dropped Netflix (because it's really more of a media company), and added MS.

Did they really, though?

Their rebranding didn't really effect anything beyond the holding company. Facebook is still called Facebook, and the Google Pixel is still made by Google. I bet the general public has pretty much zero familiarity with the Meta / Alphabet brands.

In essence it was nothing more than an attempt to misdirect public attention away from their well-known brands. See, it's Alphabet doing a bad thing - they are totally different from Google!

F*** the MMAAAN: