Multi-billionaire Elon Musk today had a very public meltdown when he heard people still referring to the social media platform he owns as Twitter.
'It’s not like the original name was so great anyway,” said the sulky plutocrat. “I mean, Twitter, seriously? And individual posts are called tweets? It’s stupid.
'My name for it, X, is way better, with posts called… well, I guess they’re still tweets, we didn’t really think that one through. Anyway, it’s my platform so I can call it what I like. And the little people have to fall in line.
'But every time it’s mentioned on the damn news, they say ‘X, formerly known as Twitter’… it’s like they’re telling people not to bother learning the new name.”
Meanwhile, trending on Twitter (sorry, X) was the topic that if Musk wanted to rebrand Tesla cars as “overpriced, impractical vanity purchases that only relocate the pollution to wherever the electricity is generated”, people would be happy to go along with that.
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