• Synthead@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Instead of renaming it to “X,” Elon magically renamed his platform to “X, formerly known as Twitter.”

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      1 year ago

      It annoys me more than it should every time I read that. Like one person gets to sit down every day and make some proclamation, and now everyone else has to go along with it.

      I’m not sure what is better, but even something like “X/Twitter” might be easier than repeatedly saying “X, formerly known as Twitter”

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        The difference being that Prince did that change to screw his record label intentionally.

        Other differences include the facts that Prince had talent, and that some people liked him.