The term "X" is already in common usage: primarily as a letter. If I said "I saw on X" out loud, most people would have no idea what I was talking about; "They saw on _a letter_?"; "Are they saying some kind of algebra?"; "Did they forget where they saw it and X is a placeholder?"; etc.

You could disambiguate by saying "X Dot Com", but that's longer and more awkward to say than Twitter.

Essentially, "X" as a name for Twitter is a confusing, poorly-forced meme that most folks don't care to entertain.

X is just a really weird name. It's not natural to say "someone posted this on X" to me, and we had like a decade of Twitter and talking about it.

I think all of us who does this strongly prefer the old name. It doesn't have to be protest; it's personal preference that doesn't yet hinder understanding. When the majority forgets what twitter was and we start getting blank stares, then, if X is still alive, we'll probably have to call it X.

In what way is it different? They increased the character limit? It's still a short form reddit-style message board, same as it was 3 years ago.

The technology itself hasn't changed, but almost everything else (owner, headcount, moderation, userbase etc. etc., not to mention the name of course) has changed dramatically...

But most/all of those don't matter to the users -- the actual user experience is still largely the same.

Reddit-style? Why would you say reddit style, and not facebook-style, mastodon-style, or bluesky-style? At least Reddit is arranded thematically, and Twitter is arranged around individuals; this is quite a significant difference.

Because the two styles are reddit style and bulletinBB style in my head. Those other three you mentioned are reddit style, too.

Interesting. To me, reddit is much closer to bulletinBB (as I remember from phpBB) than twitter. Reddit is like Hacker News in that regard.

What makes the reddit style more similar to Twitter than to bulletin board, in your mind? And do we have a modern example of the bulletinBB style since phpBB?

The main difference, in my mind, is that you reply directly to people vs posts are in one direct stream.

Hacker news is reddit style, too (by far the closest of those listed). Somethingawful is an example of a BulletinBB style board in 2026.

X is just an awkward name to say out loud, I don’t think most people have given it much thought.

> X seems very unlike twitter

In what way? More fascists, bots, and bots posting fascist things? The application itself is 99% identical to Twitter.

Why would I call Twitter something else?

Because it's not twitter anymore. The twitter that was is dead.

Because it's a completely different website now, even though it happens to have the same user database.

Well... I see your point and I kind of agree with it.

Still let this be my personal rebellion. I will still call it Twitter.