Why the f#ck do they still need to clarify it was once a good site . X remember I used to be Twitter.
X is a confusing name, and news articles want to write clear content. That is all.
- Huh?
- It’s formerly
- Twitter was never a “good site”, it’s always been a cesspool
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For me Twitter died shortly after Musk took over. It’s fitting that he renamed it - because it’s not the same place anymore.
Because “X” is ambiguous and basically meaningless. They are clarifying that they are talking about the company that used to be Twitter instead of any of the other 1,000,000 things called X.
Can’t wait for Twitter (formerly X (formerly Twitter)) to come.
Because “X” means X.org for about 40 years now.
I believe it was about the time that musk threw a fit the news was still calling it Twitter and threatened to take action. I’m pretty sure they’re calling it that now just to piss him off
They’ve been writing “X, formerly Twitter” in news articles since the day he announced it. Also was “Twitter, currently rebranding to X” for the first week.
In Finnish media they’re usually calling it “viestipalvelu X” roughly translating to “messaging service X” but it’s not uncommon for them to include that it used to be called twitter.
