I don't want to call Twitter X out of spite, but calling the travesty that is X Twitter is an insult to the people that made Twitter what it was.

Don't call it anything. Ignore it and maybe it will go away.

I mean, it’s not like twitter was ever a beacon of glory, pre-Elon twitter was still twitter

Twitter was a turd. X is a turd marinaded in diarrhea sauce.
- Such poetry. It brings a tear to my eye
Ok well maybe a beacon of glory is a bit out there for Twitter, but there was a time where it was actually cool and unique.

Like back in the day where you could interact with it over plain SMS lol

I feel old.
- My poor parents phone bill when I started using Twitter over SMS...
- That was only the first year or two at most iirc

Xitter (pronounced shitter)

Stylized as 𝕏itter
- Ummm … how?!? I just copied that text and it worked. 🤯
- Nice. 👍

Sorry twitter was always trash

It really is saying something that it's waaay worse now.

There is simple solution: just ignore it. Don't refer to it in any way.

It's not like it was a hostile take over. They played their part when Musk talked shit and they sued him to follow through with the purchase. They could have easily kept it, but they wanted the money instead.

Not that they are blameless - far from it - but they had a fiduciary responsibility to pursue the deal because it was good for their shareholders
- "Fiduciary duty to get profit" is a libertarian myth. It has no legal basis.
- That’s not the case at all, though it’s very often believed to be and stated as such on here and Reddit.
  
  https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/04/16/what-are-corporations-obligations-to-shareholders/corporations-dont-have-to-maximize-profits
  
  https://web.archive.org/web/20240529061049/https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/8146/are-u-s-companies-legally-obligated-to-maximize-profits-for-shareholders
Twitter has never, even dating back to it's inception, never ever ever turned a profit. The whole reason Elon mockingly offered to buy it was because they were looking for, and struggling to find, a buyer. They just wanted to break even and walk away.

Instead Elon was like "Hur dur I got 43 billion for ya!" And Twitter was like "SOLD! No takesies backsies!". And Elon was like "Wait, wut?"

And then Elon carried a sink through the lobby in protest.
OP might be talking about the user base, not the owners.
It was a public company, the shareholders would've sued them, no?

Hey, don't rewrite history - twitter was always notoriously bad, under Elon it surely got even worse though.

I agree with everything except the "got even worse" part. It was always a steaming turd.
- It was, but now it's a steaming turd with Nazis and KKK apologists.
- I think the "even" in that quote adequately implies that...
- 2 things can be true at once about something, imagine that.

For me, it’s simpler than that: I’m gonna deadname his company as long as he keeps deadnaming his daughter

What's up with his daughter? Did she decide to switch name because he gave her a stupid one?
- She was a boy. Now she's a girl. Daddy didn't take it so well.

People now have fond memories of twitter? Insane.

But Twitter has always been shit.

Not really. It was fun to talk to people that you barely knew. It was kinda like a hybrid of a chatroom and a forum.

But it grew to become shit.
- The reality is that Xitter isn't actually any shittier than Twitter was. It's not any better, of course. But it's certainly not any worse.

They have $44 billion dollar bills to wipe away the tears.

I don't understand why anyone would care this much about a social media website

They don’t. Rather, they believe that others do, so posts like this are simply signaling alliance.

Those people sold it to musk. They were tech bros whose goal from the start was to get a massive buyout and bail. They don't deserve your respect anymore than musk does.

The way I look at it, if Elon Musk is gonna deadname his own child, I'm sure as shit gonna deadname the corporation he tanked

The following is a tremendously disproportionate analogy given that we're talking about a microblogging website, but I really don't think there's any better term for it:

It's really less like you're calling Twitter by its deadname and more like you're refusing to call it by its slave name. Twitter didn't come up with this on its own, some guy just rolled up and said "I'm changing your name because yours isn't cool enough." Like, fukken Kunta Kinte.

Again, very unfortunate that that's the only comparison that comes to mind but I'm really blanking on anything else. Jean Valjean, I guess. Maybe Darth Vader. Locutus of Borg.
Eye for an eye makes the world blind

Previously, it was a shithole.
Now, it's a Nazi shithole.

I mean, what you personally call it isn't really going to make any difference, so if we're trying to optimize your mental health, just reframe the naritive in your head. You're still calling it Twitter to honor what it used to be, back when you respected it. You are refusing to acknowledge the nazi dumpster fire it has become, even if you still need to talk about it.

I personally basically never have a reason to mention the site when taking to another person, but if/when I do, I'll call it Twitter just because I think it would annoy Elon, if he somehow knew.

I personally basically never have a reason to mention the site when taking to another person, but if/when I do, I'll call it Twitter just because calling it ex was confusing in almost every context.

We should call it "X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter." Every time. Yes it sounds ridiculous, because it is.

I present: Xitter

"X" in Chinese is pronounced "sh", so I approve.

Twitter is gone. It died the day Elon fired most of its staff.

I have despised twitter since basically its inception.

The character (original) character limit fundamentally means you are strongly encouraged to limit conversation to basically soundbites, slogans, and pithy comments. Even though this was changed later, it still created a culture that generally mocks anything long winded.

While its true that brevity is the soul of wit, wit is not the same thing as a detailed and nuanced discussion of a complex topic.

It thus lends itself to being an optimal tool for political slogans, celebrity gossip, and direct corporate advertisement.

Twitter is far, far, faaar too open ended, as in one to many kind of network connections. Its a dream come true also for narcissistic, attention seeking individuals who want to win Twitter.
Twitter blew up before Facebook completely shifted (enshittified?) their entire model from being focused on actually connecting friend groups, and directly pushed Facebook toward just being an unmitigated firehose of 'content' from every which way, which just became the norm for 'social media' design.

Of course X now is even fucking worse, but I am so glad its dying.

The way I see it, Twitter contributed heavily toward destroying the older, more personal formats of social media, it helped destroy the old forum culture of the net where people had communities and a measure of intellect, privacy and respect.

It took the sincerity out of online discourse, and was foundational in shifting the internet from a 'place' with lots of weird locales, into some kind of Eldritch god's sick joke of a species level omni-mirror, reducing online humanity to a popularity contest of political slogans, narcissistic clout chasers, gossip mongers, and corporate sloganeering and brand worship... and giving all of this to us in an undifferentiated constant flow.

I am with you on almost all this, but I'm not sure about this:

a culture that generally mocks anything long winded.

Don't you remember the many-part tweets? Super common and all but admitting how fucking moronic the character limit was. The character limit alone made Twitter a huge piece of shit that I always hated. And I'm with you that it never made anything better. People argued for years that Twitter was good specifically because of that limit. I never understood that argument in the least.
I thought it was quite good once upon a time.

I mean lets not overdo it the algorithms were becoming very trash before it was bought up but it was usable. Peak twitter was like 2017

Twitter was no better than x lol

I hadn't been there in a long while, but a friend sent a link to what he said was a funny tweet. It was, but the responses were just awful, and they all had blue checkmarks.

Every single inserted ad was for right-wing grifts (crypto, t-shirts, gold coins, etc) or awful right-wing politicians looking angry or posing with guns.

Noped right out.

I pointed it out to my wife, but she says the journalists she follows are still all there. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Call it “eX-Twitter”.

Accurate and intelligible.

I like xitter… which someone told me was pronounced “shitter”. Seems right.

Call it "the app formerly known as twitter". It's what the media does. It would piss off Elon, and it has a whole prince vibe to it.

I don't want to call it X because it's a shit shit shit name

Mmh... nope, don't care, my neurons has already a "twitter" thing in memory, devoting 0 additional effort in anything related to that thing

Elon will buy Reddit next and rename it to Xit. Pronounced like...

You're giving him too much credit. He'll probably call it “X”, as well, grabbing some other Unicode letter, but he'll keep using the reddit.com domain. Y'know, like twitter.com.

Twitter was always bad. It is of course way worse now, but it is silly to have any nostalgic and reverential feelings for it.

Calling twix, or xitter! You can also call it Elon's X (he has many exes, so this one fits in)

Xerox.

Twitter is no worse today than five years ago. But it’s certainly also no better. The discussion about which billionaires we want manipulating public discourse is outright insanity

I always call it 'X, the everything app.'

Can we start calling it Bluesky?

Xcrement. It's called Xcrement.

xTwitter

Shitter

Xlon’s Twitter

This isn't a shower thought

Sure was.