Can we stop calling it "X"?
Like... no, dickhead, I don't care how much money you spent on the company. It's Twitter.
Renaming things is dumb, and it's time someone fell on a sword for doing it. Apparently the Sears Tower wasn't enough of a warning.
Like... no, dickhead, I don't care how much money you spent on the company. It's Twitter.
Renaming things is dumb, and it's time someone fell on a sword for doing it. Apparently the Sears Tower wasn't enough of a warning.
The rename to X is different because it is Musk trying to make "fetch" happen. He convinced himself in the late 90s that "X" would be the ultimate website name despite a mountain of user feedback that it would, in fact, not be the ultimate website name. He's had a hyperfixation on it ever since. Now he's the richest man in the world after 20 years of artificially-low interest rates and incestuous relationships on Silicon Valley corporate boards, and no one will tell him it was a shit idea lest they lose their jobs or connections or because they've gotten as poisoned on the kool-aid as he is.
(Consignia was the name the Royal Mail (the UK Post Office) briefly, bafflingly adopted in 2001. Everyone completely ignored this, and they quietly changed it back a year or so later. The early noughties were _weird_.)
Feel free to use Mandarin inflections if you wish.