I’m genuinely curious about peoples thoughts on this.

It made sense for a while. But the branding change was 16 months ago. The URI change was 3 months ago. Everybody knows now what X is. Yet for some reason, I still see in news stories today:
“… on X — formerly known as Twitter — and said …”
I really don’t think that’s needed anymore. But I’m always one to want changes as fast and painless as possible.

So what do you think would be an appropriate amount of time to keep reminding everyone that Twitter is now X?
Months?
Years?
How many?

  • Ephera
    40·
    2 months ago

    I think, the main problem is that “X” doesn’t look like a name.

    When someone’s not starkly aware of the platform being called that, they might think the author typoed.
    Or is using it like the idiom “they posted it to X, Y and Z” (so just a nondescript set of platforms).
    Or genuinely means the letter X and that just doesn’t make sense in the context presented.

    “X, formerly Twitter” is just a better name than “X”, because it is recognizable.