98 points

Don’t call it anything. Ignore it and maybe it will go away.

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I mean, it’s not like twitter was ever a beacon of glory, pre-Elon twitter was still twitter

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Twitter was a turd. X is a turd marinaded in diarrhea sauce.

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10 points

Such poetry. It brings a tear to my eye

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Ok well maybe a beacon of glory is a bit out there for Twitter, but there was a time where it was actually cool and unique.

Like back in the day where you could interact with it over plain SMS lol

I feel old.

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My poor parents phone bill when I started using Twitter over SMS…

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That was only the first year or two at most iirc

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At least 4 years. I was using a flip phone until around 2010, and that’s how I normally use Twitter when I wasn’t at a computer.

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Xitter (pronounced shitter)

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21 points

Stylized as 𝕏itter

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Ummm … how?!? I just copied that text and it worked. 🤯

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Because it’s text.

There are more kind of letters then just our latin alphabet. Cyrillic, aboriginal Canadian and even Chinese and Japanese can be typed by just text for instance (日本語の例え)

In the same vein, mathematical and other scientific symbols can be typed using just text, and 𝕏 is the symbol that stands in place for arbitrary distance in a formula.

Basically, it’s just a (mathematical) letter, it can be typed.
That’s also why their new CEO had difficulties copyrighting it; it’s just a letter, after all!

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4 points

It’s a distinct ascii character

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0 points

unicode!

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4 points

Nice. 👍

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32 points

Sorry twitter was always trash

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It really is saying something that it’s waaay worse now.

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28 points

There is simple solution: just ignore it. Don’t refer to it in any way.

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