Mr. Musk may have successfully pushed Twitter's new name and logo, 'X', and even made the vanity domain x.com redirect to the social media website, but that's not to say, the Mathematical double-struck letter will fit the bill everywhere. Apple's App Store can't accept Twitter iOS app's new name due to minimum character requirements
  • Overzeetop@lemmy.world
    20·
    1 year ago

    I think I’m okay with it being referred to as “the social media network formerly known as Twitter” from here on out.

    • Cmot_Dibbler@lemmy.world
      211·
      1 year ago

      I’m not. Prince was awesome. He changed his name to a symbol because Warner Bros trademarked his name and wouldn’t let him do what he wanted with his own music. People started calling him The Artist Formally Know as Prince. But the reason was ignored and everyone made fun of him.

      Musk is an idiot and loser and shouldn’t be even tangentially compared to Prince.

      I much prefer to call it “10”

      • Rakn@discuss.tchncs.de
        62·
        1 year ago

        This might hurt a little, but I don’t think most people today know who Prince is. I just know that he was a musician. That sentence is also a commonly used sentence in such scenarios, unrelated to one person.

      • OtakuAltair@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year ago

        No idea who prince except he’s a musician but “the site formerly known as Twitter” sounds hilarious

      • Dylpickles@lemmy.world
        611·
        1 year ago

        I think you’re a little silly for assuming that directly references Prince. I wasn’t even alive when all that stuff with Prince was happening and I had only heard it happened in a conversation I had with my mom when I was like 12.

        That’s just kinda what you call something that was formerly known as something else when the something else is not well received.