This week's poll was something I was thinking about today. Do you call it X or Twitter?

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Previous Poll Results:
Question: How do you normally dry your washed clothes?
Choices:
In-unit dryer - votes: 1032 (40.8%)
Communal dryer shared by the building - votes: 128 (5.1%)
At a laundromat - votes: 70 (2.8%)
Hang dry - votes: 1300 (51.4%)
There were 2530 total votes.
The poll ended: March 30th, 2024 9:01am PDT

I currently don't have an in-unit dryer, so I have to hang dry my clothes. My clothes feel hard after drying since my water isn't the softest

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x.com leads to twitter.com. The usual Musk mess.

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Usually twitter, but sometimes xitter (pronounced "shitter".) I will never call it X, I will die on this stupid hill

Last edited by Ruruskadoo at 7:32 pm, Mar 30 2024

Who the hell calls it X? Twitter is Twitter!

It is not a mess, it is just way harder to change website name than you think... Redirecting from x to twitter is easy... But changing twitter to x for good will take years

Though yeah i still call it twitter

Last edited by Trimutius at 4:54 am, Mar 31 2024

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Is it fair to say "tweet" any more? I am X-ing!

Last edited by Katsono at 10:59 am, Mar 31 2024

twitter.com is displayed no matter what at all times. You either rebrand or you don´t. There is no in-between. That is the branding failure and one of the endless reasons why the site lost over 70% of its value since its acquisition 2 years ago. Even Musk acknowledged that it´s bleeding money since the takeover. Any random crackhead could run the company better but his unplanned destruction of hellscape.com is one of the few good deeds of his life.

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I have to be honest, to this day I don't understand why Musk changed the name of a social media platform that already has a strong brand.

Tweet, Tweeting, TWITTER. And with a bird logo.

I'll call it twitter no matter what

Calling it X, is inexcusable.

I still call it Twitter. X just doesn't roll off the tongue as well

I thought the difficulty of changing a site name is one of the reasons people were so against it, because of how impractical it is. Is that not common knowledge? It's not my social media of choice so I don't care, but that is also is why I'll only call it X if he manages to change the url.

I abstain from mentioning it. I dislike how they were one of the first "free" social media to aggressively force you to log in or register.

Elon Musk still dead-names trans people, it'd be absolute lunacy to respect his renaming of Twitter

What? I have no idea. Social media platform? Is that like IRC or something?

EDIT: whoops I accidentally replied to someone

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This is the most annoying thing - it's hard to even share things from that site with anyone who doesn't have an account or isn't logged in these days. Feels counter-intuitive...most social sites let you view the linked post and a little more before they hit you with "Like what you see? SIGN UP NOW!!" pop-up.

I call it Twitter because they haven't done enough to really rebrand it as X (they kind of forced it and it wasn't a smooth transition). People were calling it the "bird app" for too long, too, and that's a lot funner to say.

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