Hacker News Reader

Comment by gwbas1c | Hacker News Reader

I get a kick out of how the link in this story is "twitter.com" instead of "x.com".

Personally, I think everyone should just continue to say "Twitter."

I do and I always will. I refuse to play along with corporate rebrands, be it Twitter, Facebook, Comcast, Charter or anything else.

Don't forget Blackwater!

Currently known as Constellis.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_(company)

Did Elon buy the Xe name from them or something?

But you already are just by saying those names

*you mean "The Facebook" ;)

FYI; Comcast is a corporate rebrand of American Cable Systems

I enjoyed reading your post on Startup News. ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_News#History

I'm not that stuck in the mud.

However, naming something "X" is just stupid. (Unless it's an owl in a popular children's show.)

I think Hackernews changes the link to twitter.com after submission to avoid duplicates.

The best way is IMHO to say "social media" that way you're not promoting either

I really try to not use Google as a verb.

Huh, why?

And Facebook instead of Meta, although if I think of it, I'd rather not say any of those in any context.

Facebook is a product, Meta is a company. It was always weird to say Facebook in the context of Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus etc. Heck who even uses Facebook now?

Yeah, I call the company Facebook, I don't care enough to follow their terminology, and I don't keep track of their products.

People who use marketplace

Personally, don't use it at all. Worst social media platform IMO.

> Personally, I think everyone should just continue to say "Twitter."

Because…?

I also continue to say Twitter and prefer others to also do so because X is a terrible name to search for. It has too many common uses besides as the new name for Twitter so there are way too many false positives.

For example let's say you want to see all the times you've mentioned that site in your HN comment history. If you search for "author:tomcam twitter" in the search thingy at the bottom of most HN pages it turns up 34 comments and it looks like all of them are actually about that site or contained links to content on that site.

Change that to "author:tomcam x" and there are 13 comments. Only 4 of those are using X to mean Twitter. The x in the others come from OS-X, X-rated (in two comments), 2796 x 1290, x.into(), X.js, X-Files (in two comments), 4 x 8.

Because I'm not about to hand over one of the 26 essential letters of our alphabet to corporate whims. "Twitter" emerged as a fresh term because people embraced it—not because a billionaire decreed it. Whether it's naming a service or renaming a gulf , words—and especially their letters—belong to the public, not to the power of a few billionaires..

'X' is cumbersome. Everybody knows what you're talking about when you say Twitter.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com