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Comment by ryandrake | Hacker News Reader

I thought the headline was talking about the X Window System, like "Wait, did they actually run Linux and X?"

I clicked on it because while I knew it couldn't mean the X Window System, I couldn't figure out what it possibly could be. The only time I remember Twitter is called X now is those rare occasions of when I type the URL.

Yeah I had the exact same thought. I really sat there thinking "are you telling me that they were going to let me run Gimp on my Xbox??"

I think X is a really stupid name for a social media platform, but I'm not a guy worth $200 billion who calls people pedophiles if he doesn't like them, so what do I know?

Ditto. When I clicked on the article, it was an "oh yeah, that makes more sense" moment, but I certainly don't feel stupid for making the mistake. The Twitter -> X is terrible.

Ditto. When I clicked on the article, it was an "oh yeah, that makes more sense" moment, but I certainly don't feel stupid for making the mistake. The Twitter -> X is terrible. I hearby rebrand it to "Wasteland." That sometimes feels like an appropriate name and at least there's a couple of letters difference between that and Wayland.

Xitter, with a “sh” sound for the X

I typically use term / emoji "eggs" when referring to the zombified husk formerly known as twitter.

"It's gotten hard to read eggs without an account these days" or "ever since they got rid of content moderation eggs really smells." or "did you see that egg Musk dropped last week?"

I never got into Twitter to begin with, so to me it wasn't a huge loss to see it fall apart, but I have to admit that the branding of Twitter was way better than "X". "Tweet" very quickly became part of the English lexicon, people knew what it was almost unanimously (in no small due to one controversial politician), and Elon decided to throw that away, presumably because "X is a cool letter".

Even Mastodon (which I got slightly more into) has realized how important having specific branding is to a platform like this, and uses the word "toot" instead of the generic "post".

So what's the verb for the "X" platform then? Just "to X"?

I think it's just called "posting" now. Which is accurate but boring.

Xitting.

Pronounce it however you prefer.

For some reason, whenever I see the term "Xitter", my mind always parses it as "shitter". How do you pronounce it?

"The social network formerly known as Twitter". At least when in polite company.

Xweet

Jut aXe the tweet for eX-friends.

Xcrete

hahaha this was exactly my thought! X Window System

Their logos look quite similar, so I can understand the mixup.

Everyone is switching to Wayland now.

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