• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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      Isn’t Facebook still Facebook? Meta is the parent company that owns Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads, Oculus, Onavo, Beluga, and about 90 other tech companies. They do just like Google, or Alphabet, and buy out every tech startup that has any chance of success to ensure they never have competition.

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      The Twitter brand was the most valuable part of that company. If Musk is dumb enough to throw that away, I will GLADLY call it “X.”

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      No, I always call it Fuckbook and don’t intend to change that but yea, definitely not Meta!

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        Didn’t Trump already claim the Orwellian social media company name? The one where you get your turds (or whatever they call them) deleted for contradicting Dear Leader?

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    I always felt like Jim was a dick here. But I agree in this context.

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      Jim is a dick in most of the office

      He thinks he’s better than everyone he works with and really only treats people decently when he wants something

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      I posted a whole rant about this before I saw your comment. Suffice to say, I entirely agree. It’s one of his worst moments. What an asshole.

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    If you want Musk to fail, use the name that has less brand recognition and lower brand trust.

    The Twitter brand was literally the most valuable part of that company. When people hear “X” they are MUCH more inclined to either

    • not recognize the brand name
    • focus on the fact that the product has changed significantly (for the worse)

    Call it X.

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      You forgot option #3: Think it’s some porn site.

      I never used twitter but when I saw some site named X my first thoughts were “Why is a porn site suddenly so popular?”

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    Fuck Elon Musk, but this is one of Jim’s worst moments in that show. If someone comes back from an extended therapy program with a set of tools and techniques they are using to solidify and remind themselves of the changes they have made to themselves and their lives, and one of them is as simple as asking you to use the other half of their legal name as their short form moniker, you have to be a an asshole not to do so. So yeah, call Musky’s new sinking ship whatever you want, but don’t be Jim Halpert about it, because Drew never crossed the line in anger again. /rantover

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    tfw when you’re too lazy to actually screenshot the clips with subtitles so you just add them in Snapchat

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    I’m going to call it “eggs”. A tweet is now an “egg” and tweeting is “egging”.

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    I’ve been calling it Xitter, sounds like zitter. Gotta call it something, not the dumb thing he made up.