X really wants you to forget about Twitter.

X’s new terms of service insist that tweets are now posts::X is rolling out a new terms of service on September 29th, and one adjustment is a single instance of “retweet” to “repost.” There are other changes regarding data scraping and class action lawsuits.

Nothing says marketing genius like throwing away one of the most recognisable brands in the industry and replacing it with “X”

@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
91Y

When your brand gets to the point where it turns into a verb why on earth would you ever torpedo that?

It’s like if Google changed their name to “search” and prodded people to say “just search it” instead of “just google it”.

@Plopp@lemmy.world
link
fedilink
English
41Y

It’s even worse. It would be like Google changing their name to Y and telling people to “just search it”.

Create a post

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


  • 1 user online
  • 220 users / day
  • 609 users / week
  • 1.39K users / month
  • 4.49K users / 6 months
  • 1 subscriber
  • 7.41K Posts
  • 84.7K Comments
  • Modlog