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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDo you think that we need a shorthand term for "the site formerly known as Twitter" ? Any suggestions?
Or are we just stuck with X, which looks like a typo or a placeholder?
Walleye
(31,356 posts)ExWhoDoesntCare
(4,741 posts)It fits.
Hekate
(91,482 posts)Jerry2144
(2,177 posts)In Chinese.
Its Shitter
LiberalFighter
(51,968 posts)RainCaster
(11,038 posts)Using the pronunciation show here.
LearnedHand
(3,423 posts)Also the "hellsite"
SWBTATTReg
(22,461 posts)NOUN
informal
a silly or foolish person:
"she has no patience with the upper-class twit her parents try to match her with" · [more]
synonyms:
fool · idiot · halfwit · nincompoop · blockhead · buffoon · dunce · dolt · [more]
I never could understand why Muskrat changed the name of this platform, it was well engrained into the American landscape. He just simply cost himself a ton of money, which serves him right.
Sneederbunk
(14,377 posts)Happy Hoosier
(7,567 posts)lamp_shade
(14,861 posts)keithbvadu2
(37,399 posts)SoFlaBro
(2,225 posts)Eugene
(62,061 posts)where one leave x-cretions. (Credit Brian Tyler Cohen)
highplainsdem
(49,311 posts)even just reading tweets, judging by the responses I saw the other day when someone there asked others what they call the site. Looked like about 90% called it Twitter.
Attilatheblond
(2,421 posts)It's not rocket science, after all.
ret5hd
(20,670 posts)Pachamama
(16,888 posts)Or Shit for short
kentuck
(111,166 posts)Twix.
sakabatou
(42,284 posts)Mike Niendorff
(3,480 posts)Simple and descriptive.
MDN
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Elon can call it what he wants, still gonna be Twitter to me.
PLUS they are too lazy to rebrand the interior. The little blue bird still shows up on those pages...
❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️
MLAA
(17,522 posts)Cha
(298,922 posts)I call it Twitter.. fuck musk.
But thats just me.
How long are they going to do that?
brooklynite
(95,413 posts)I still use Twitter. People still largely call it Twitter.
bucolic_frolic
(43,892 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,225 posts)how else to do it, trying to get TW into it.
mahina
(17,898 posts)Pronounced as in Mandarin, appropriately. Like Xi.