• stopthatgirl7@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’m just cracking up over here at how no one is calling it “X.” Not a single news story I’ve seen on this so far has called Elon’s lil app anything but “Twitter” in the headline.

    That rebranding is going great! 🤣

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        1 year ago

        My family won’t even stop deadnaming me. I’m not even trans, they just don’t really care.

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      1 year ago

      Tbf news articles nowadays mostly focus on SEO and driving engagement. A single letter is the worst thing for SEO. Even suffixing it with Corp can’t overcome that. It just reiterates how big of a moron musk is. But well, at least we get front row seats to someone setting billions on fire.

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      1 year ago

      I wish users did that more often. Is there any reason to say “Meta” instead of “Facebook”?

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        Well it makes sense when referring to the company because they own a bunch of popular brands like Instagram, WhatsApp, etc. Twitter just has Twitter so it doesn’t matter as much.

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          I don’t understand. What’s does saying “Meta owns WhatsApp” do which saying “Facebook owns WhatsApp” does not do? A disadvantage is my non-tech literate coworkers and family probably wouldn’t know what I’m talking if I said Meta.