@strangeseawolf It always irks me when media writes "X, formerly Twitter". If the owner wants to rename the service to something that looks like a placeholder, let him, and if you must mention it by name, you don't need to do his PR work for him. 🙂
I have all but given up on all other asocial media. For me it's Fediverse and personal blogs! (Of which I have found plenty through the Fediverse, so there!)
@mkj @paul @DavidBridger @QuokkaMocha @floofpaldi @Firlefanz True. I am amused at the things media are doing to make people know what X is supposed to be.
I for one will always use the sentence I used above even in spoken word or presentations. The moment he will call his daughter by her name, I will call it X.
@strangeseawolf Seems legit to me.
Still, sucks that he misappropriated a perfectly good placeholder. I want to be able to talk about X and that shouldn't be taken as implied support of one specific company!
@mkj @paul @DavidBridger @QuokkaMocha @floofpaldi @Firlefanz Ha, yeah, Brand X will never be the same...
@strangeseawolf @mkj @paul @DavidBridger @floofpaldi @Firlefanz I’ve been doing a bit of stealth undermining by subtitling “Twitter” whenever someone mentions X, and get away with it by saying I didn’t know if X would come out right on voice rec.
