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Twitter To Rebrand As X (www.theverge.com)
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[-] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 114 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That is a stupid name

It'll be a nightmare to search

Gonna name my company "😃"

[-] Nepenthe@kbin.social 59 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm opening up a rival called "social media." Already, we're on everyone's lips, set to have a userbase spanning half the web.

[-] CarlsIII@kbin.social 39 points 1 year ago

There’s a band I heard of called “:(“ and I’ve never been able to find it since

[-] pleb_maximus@feddit.de 32 points 1 year ago
[-] CarlsIII@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago

Wow, thanks! I’m not sure this is even them but it’s a band called :( so I’ll take it!

[-] lukini@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

There's a Japanese youtube channel that makes music under a blank name with blank titles. Thankfully you can google "blank japanese youtube channel" and it shows up lol

[-] CarlsIII@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Heh, there’s also a Japanese band that used to be called…X

[-] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 25 points 1 year ago

Ṯ̸̛̠͈̜̮̠͉̖̩͈̦̖̰̺̦̳̞̣͍̖̮̩̩͔̟̇̾̽̄̔̊͂̕͝w̶̘̖͓̮͓̉̀̀̿̈́̀͗͂̂̑̆̐̀͌́͗̑̑̊̈̅̇͒̊͋̚͘̕͘̕į̸͖̪̪̟̭͔͚̼̳̏̈͒́͑͒̈́̿̔͆̀̿̏̒͝t̶̡̘̟̣̀̾͛͂̒͆̆̂̇͘͠t̷̡̨̖̖̤͎̬̜̬͈̙̱͖̼͚͇͕̘͈̔̎́̅̈́̉͒́̚͜͝͝ͅę̴͕̥͎̙͉̗̜̟͔́̀̾͐̿̑̉̀͐̂̚r̵̢̢̦̰̰̣͖̯͎͚͙͇̯͈̙͔͇͉͈̩̖̝͉̅̏̿͗̆̀̀̈́̔̀͊̓

[-] joelfromaus@aussie.zone 14 points 1 year ago

It’s Twitter but for thrash metal bands.

[-] peter@feddit.uk 13 points 1 year ago

At least he didn't name it something that's a generic name for a concept that exists on almost all social media sites like.. I don't know, "threads"

[-] Xylight@lemmy.xylight.dev 17 points 1 year ago

More interesting than a single letter

[-] StarkillerX42@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

The artist formerly known as Twitter

[-] SSUPII@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

The hacker known as 4chan

[-] fox@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago
[-] highduc@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

Was not expecting Peep Show when clicking that link. Great show!

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