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Surprising absolutely no one, Twitter allowed and hosted a 3 hour strategy meeting for nazis 
@alissaazar What’s Twitter? I thought it was the fascist bar called X now, run by that fascist Elon Musk.
@aral @alissaazar correct. But I refuse to call it X out of principal. The principal being I’m stubborn
@alissaazar Not saying this is the case for you but I feel some folks still call it Twitter to make themselves feel better for continuing to use it. It’s easier to say you’re still on Twitter than to say you made the decision to use Elon Musk’s fascist new social network, X.
@aral @alissaazar that's a super fair and interesting perspective that I hadn't thought about. Probably also a good reason to acknowledge it as X vs Twitter to differentiate from what it is and what it was. Its also just such a stupid name I don’t want to acknowledge it out of spite lmao
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I call it xitter, it rhymes with 
@alissaazar @aral there are good reasons to call it twitter too though: by keeping the old branding, we highlight the failure of the rebranding effort and refuse to accord the new management any respect. The idea that “X” is a super cool name that everybody should like and want to use is core to Musk’s identity and I do think it’s beautiful that the entire world is absolutely clowning on this shockingly dumb idea that has been executed with phenomenal incompetence
@glyph yeah this is pretty much where I’ve been with it
@glyph @alissaazar @aral “Twitter” is also a term you can usefully search for, or filter out; “X” is not
@ShadSterling @glyph @alissaazar @aral I'm calling it Xitter (proniuced shitter) or the Rotting bird. Fuck Elmo for what he did.