Twitter

Hey, good news, Elon. Most of us have gone from calling it "twitter" to calling it "that facist shithole that used to be twitter".

Good job wasting 43 BILLION dollars only to see it's traffic literally cut in half, you micro-penised shitstain on society. You will not be remembered as the genius your group of ass kissers tell you you are. You'll be remembered as being dumber than a one brain celled orange tabby.

You're being optimistic. He won't be remembered at all.
- All the biggest disasters are remembered.
And it’s now less than one year salary because greed.
- ....who's salary? I don't make anywhere close to 43 billion a year. What job do YOU have???
That's giving him too much credit, orange cats are just dumb not evil. He sucks the life of of people, encourages the spread of disease and death. He's a mosquito. Just an annoying, insignificant bug that will only be remembered for the discomfort he caused.
I thought we always called it "radical shithole". Not much changed. It's just SJWs making indie gamedevs suicide were replaced with Christians making everyone else suicide.
- God I hate the pedo hunts, like yeah even if they find real freaks... The fact that so many who weren't guilty had their lives ruined and in some cases ended over bullshit accusations is offensive, especially since evidence collected in an illicit manner is not admissible in court. Prosecutors call it "Fruit from the Forbidden Tree"
Well he did take a fairly neutral platform used to spread ideas and form movements and destroy it. So I'm sure the right and the rich are happy about that.
- They are. This is the equivalent of a 19th century steel tycoon buying up newspapers all across the country. It's an investment.
Nag, I just call it shitter when I'm bored of "Twitter".

X is still such a stupid fucking name. I feel cringe saying that.

I won't. It will always be twitter, and he bought it because people made fun of him.
- He offered to buy it as a joke, and was forced to finish the transaction because he had taken it too far by actually signing contracts and putting money down. He was gonna go "Just kidding" and pull out, but then the courts told him that this already constituted a legally binding sell and if he tried to back out now he'd go to jail for fraud.
- As long as twitter.com redirects there, it's twitter 👐
It's very "hacking, trenchcoats, and Muse are cool" isn't it?

Like, yeah. Obviously this guy thought of it...
- What did Muse do to deserve this?
X11 is such a great name. Imagine instead of x.com opening x.org.
- I always just hear it referred to as xorg, which I pronounce "x-org"

Its almost funnier to see every news publication constantly refer to it as "X (formerly known as Twitter"), the constant need to remind people of how stupid the decision was it amusing

I prefer "Twitter (temporarily known as X)"
- That would imply he or someone else will change the name back to Twitter
- Ex Twitter

He looks high as giraffe pussy in that picture.

..........ya know, I'm 40 years old, and up until this point in my life I've never once considered what a giraffe pussy looks like......and my brain isn't capable of doing so. Maybe that's a good thing.
- They got a zoo in your town?
- Ask and you shall receive:
  
  NSFW, but not pornographic
  
  Click here for a non-sexualized video of the birth of a baby giraffe. It's pretty high!
- black lips to match the tongue
The bottom eyelids are a dead giveaway
Joe Rogan, is that you?

Maybe he should buy Alphabet and rename their search engine.

Ooh or he could buy out Kleenex and rename that.

What the fuck would make someone throw out the name Twitter? It wasn't a bad name. It wasn't like...Phillip Morris or something.

"wasn't a bad name" is the understatement of the year. it was one of the most successful brand names ever. normal people with functioning brains would kill to have a brand that's so ingrained in the language, especially without the threat of genericizing the trademark.

xerox didn't want people to use xerox as a generic verb to mean photocopy, or kleenex the same for a generic tissue.

but Twitter was never used to mean another social media site, and tweeting never means posting on Facebook or Tumblr or whatever. a tweet is specifically a post on Twitter. that's the perfect brand.
- Is this just a really bad business deal followed by absurdly poor leadership, but very visible?
  
  Did Elon make it obvious he had a completely different vision for twitter when he talked about buying it?
He’s been wanting to have an “everything” company named X for years, since before PayPal I think. So he jumped at the chance to ruin twitter of course and rebuild it from the top down
- He was let go at PayPal because he tried to make it x.
Maybe he should buy Alphabet and rename their search engine.

He'd probably do it because of his hatred for "aLphABeT PeOpLE!" like his own kid. That fucking prick. If he were on fire, I'd piss on him, but not at the base of the flames.
I think all he managed to do, other than torching a legendary amount of money, was to create a bunch of easy content for some lazy college students in marketing 101. The ones who don’t want to dig to find something more interesting and nuanced.
I don't think he has $1T, which is half the market cap

There's no such thing as deadnaming a company/corporation/brand, they aren't a living entity and have no will of their own, the one offended is their owner.

except they get more rights
I'm fine with offending Musk by calling his precious website Twitter. Aren't you?
- It isn't exactly dead naming, of course i'll happily do it. I did it for multiple other corporation that change hand and name, i'll still call the name that i used to call it, confusing the younger generation is a plus, offending the CEO is the goal.
And yet Elon's mad that everyone still calls the platform he's managed to actually make worse "twitter".
You'd be rightfully surprised.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood

I’m gonna deadname his company for as long as he deadnames his kid :)

I'm still pushing Xitter, pronounced with the "shee" sound

Is there anything the average person can do to increase the running cost of Twitter without increasing their revenue?

Like, can we just automate uploading videos of nothing meaningful, and re-loading them over and over forever?

Awww. Poor Twitler doesn’t like his propaganda arm called Twitter.

It is always morally correct to deadname transphobes. Including JD Vance who's "Real" name is James Bowman

what like "Tommy Robinson, Whose Real Name Is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon", where you have to use the full name at all times

That's pretty much what I've said about Twitter since he changed the name- I'll keep calling it Twitter while he still allows deadnaming.

I thought we all agreed to call it shitter?

Xitter
- Musk made CCP happy
South park called that years ago

What is deadnaming?

Intentionally using the former name ("dead name") of a (typically trans) person with the intent to cause harm
- Okay, now that you've edited your comment to clarify, it makes sense. The term dead seemed quite literal in your previous and original text, but now I can see it is a term for that part of society, when they change their name and leave the ordinary behind., and it is insulting to that person.
  
  Since it wasn't clear at the start, but that's okay. Now it makes sense.
When saying the name of a trans person, it's when you use their previous name from before their transition. E.g. saying Ellen Page instead of Elliot Page.

Presumably it can also mean just calling someone by their previous name that they prefer to leave behind, even if not trans.

I have no idea who Musk's child is and no desire to look it up.
- He (or she, I really don't remember) became famous from receiving a really bad name.

Never. "X" is so cringey to say.

X11
- xorg-x11

I’ll call it twitter until twitter.com is a different website

He fired to much people to recode every single dependency.
I go with "The website formerly known as Twitter" mostly for the Prince bit...
- I mean, that is what corpo media calls it, so it's correct enough.

I still don't use twitter

Dude literally bought Kleenex and insists you call it facial tissue paper.

Nah. He bought Kleenex and insists that you call it 42 because it's a cool number.
He'll call it Nexes

Corporations are not people. They do not have a sense of identity. They do not deserve the same rights as humans. They are not capable of being affected by things like gender dysphoria. A corporation does not have feelings and is only a word we use to describe a collective form of actions made by ACTUAL humans.

You literally can not deadname a company. But Elon should understand the hypocrisy none the less.

I agree with you, but then there's this, which is silly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood

Don't call it, this place is irrelevant, just don't mention it anymore, only idiots, normies and boomers are left

"Only the vast majority of the population are left" is a weird argument to make.

I was following various folks on there but never much posted.

Then, a couple weeks ago they implemented some kind of "live" feature that started spamming notifications like crazy. The only way to disable it was to disable user notifications, which means Twitter went totally quiet for me.

I've checked in a couple times in the interim, but looks like I'm pretty much done with that app. I guess it was Elon's next step on the path to destroying Twitter.

What about his child? The one with the name that qualifies as a good password?

Musk-chan?

Musk-tan

Haha, funny. This guy thinks he can tell me what to do.

don't worry, i don't mention either name

deadnames?

Like, something with AEX12? Pretty sure it doesn't mean he has an actual dead child

Using a trans person's original name when they've chosen a new one
- Thanks for actually answering and not just downvoting like some toxic fucks in here. It seems that not even Lemmy is immune from social media's toxicity.
He has a transgender daughter, whom he still calls by her old, male name. Calling a trans person by their old name that they no longer use, is called deadnaming.
Oh boy. No he has a male to female transgender child, who he intentionally calls by their given name at birth, Also he really switched over to being conservative and anti-trans after said child came out to him. Usually parents go the other way, but he went the extreme hate direction and has seemingly said his child is dead to him.

I will absolutely not call it anything but twitter

Twitter twitter twitter, you asshole

Asking out of genuine curiosity how would one go about moderating or restricting deadnaming on Twitter from an applicable technical perspective?

Might not be popular but you dont want to restrict that type of stuff in tech, because people very quickly and easily find ways around it, usually by using new similar words that call back to the prohibited ones.

This is an area where moderation is key, and I think people might need to reconsider who they allow to send them direct messages. Especially I expect there to be a better way to vet someone who is trying to directly reach a stranger.

If you are literally going to open your door to the whole world some bad stuff will fall in, but you dont have to let them into your private areas just because they made it in the front door.

Trust networks are another idea, essentially verifying new people through acquaintances.
The same way that we deal with every other thing that social media platforms restrict. You make it against the rules and then enforce them. If you’re feeling fancy you could program some heuristics to determine the likelihood of a message containing deadnames - for example, maintain a list of common targets, look for people tagging them or related hashtags in tweets containing their dead name, and use sentiment analysis, to determine whether those messages should be subject to moderator approval before appearing publicly.
I agree with the other responses you have here.

I'll add one observation: the more petty the censorship, the bigger the backlash. People in general loathe that kind of behavior, and internet geeks with a vivid collective memory of being bullied by people like this? Oh, you reap the whirlwind in such cases.