cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/834308
Archived version: https://archive.ph/cQmID
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230729214729/https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/apple-rejects-new-name-x-for-twitter-ios-app-because-rules/
I’m sure this won’t end up being a huge deal, but the funny part is that this apparently wasn’t planned for. Gives you some insight into how much of a shit show Twitter/X HQ must be right now.
I think it’s fait to just call it Twitter and not “x” or “twitter/x” or “x social” or “Twitter but actually x”
X will never stick 😅
I think I’m okay with it being referred to as “the social media network formerly known as Twitter” from here on out.
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”
Call it “no”, or maybe “close button”.
“Wrong”
“Two drunk buddies holding one another up”
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.
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No idea who prince is except he’s a musician but “the site formerly known as Twitter” sounds hilarious
formerly known as
Aye yai yai. Yes, thank you.
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. A conversation suddenly brought back to mind by your comment.
That’s just kinda what you call something that was formerly known as something else when the something else is not well received.
It was popularized by the Prince situation whether people know that today or not.
eX-Twitter.
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“Elon, stop trying to make X happen. It’s not going to happen.”
It was cool in the 90s like i in front of a word was cool in the 00/10s. That was his era.
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Leaded gas just started being phased out in the US in 1973 was still in use in the 80s was didn’t stop entirely until 1996. South Africa didn’t ban it until sometime between 2002 and 2006. It’s often used in reference to boomers, but gen x was also affected, even millennials to a lesser degree.
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I mean…
He tried to do this 20 years ago with PayPal. This is just a midlife crisis, no grand plan.
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It’s been renamed to X on my partner’s iPhone so they seem to have gotten round it already.
They haven’t. It’s still Twitter in the App Store. The icon/app name on your phone is not what the article is discussing.
Same for me but the App Store page for the app still says Twitter. Changing it there requires approval I think.
If it’s like Android apps, the name in the app store and on the phone can be different.
That’s crazy. He wants to turn the app into an everything app and there isn’t even concrete plans in place. Wish I could be a fly on the wall in their meetings. If they even have one.