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Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? by bluedino on Friday December 08, 2023 @08:06AM (#38568523)
They'll never become 'X', except internally. They'll always be known as "the site formerly known as Twitter".

Just like Prince.

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Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? by InCityDreams on Friday December 08, 2023 @08:31AM (#38568798)
Prince wasn't formally known as ""the site formerly known as Twitter"."
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Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? by runamuck on Friday December 08, 2023 @09:37AM (#38569533)
It will take. We once called KFC "Kentucky Fried Chicken."
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Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? by cantSpellSober on Friday December 08, 2023 @10:33AM (#38570232)
Nobody called it that :)

> This wasn’t so much of a problem when Kentucky Fried Chicken became KFC—lots of us already called it that

https://slate.com/business/2004/05/what-does-kfc-stand-for-n...

Twitter has always been Twitter

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