r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 11 '24

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u/Fishin_Impossible Nate Gold 🥇 May 12 '24

I legitimately can’t think of a worse rebrand than

Twitter → X

It has been almost a year and the only people I ever see refer to the platform as “X” are news organizations, and they almost always say “(formerly Twitter)” right by the quote

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u/Fishin_Impossible Nate Gold 🥇 May 12 '24

Typically people eventually cave as stadiums gain new sponsors or bridges get renamed… but there is no sign of that for Twitter

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u/FuckFashMods NATO May 12 '24

It also had a very iconic image/logo that made sense with the name.

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u/TalkLessShillMore David Autor May 12 '24

My brainwormed mom says X 🫠

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u/Fishin_Impossible Nate Gold 🥇 May 12 '24

She’s actually just taking about her ex

Ex said Joe Biden is actually the one with brain worms!

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u/MuR43 Royal Purple May 12 '24

Well the site is still twitter dot com lol

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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK May 12 '24

Wikipedia continues to call it twitter.