• SulaymanF@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What a stupid stupid move. “Tweet” is in the dictionary, it’s people’s standard vocab word for any kind of short post.

    It’s like if Johnson & Johnson decided to rename Band-Aid to strips. Why would you lose decades of advertising and free advertising by people using your name?

    • Aurenkin
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      1 year ago

      Yes but X cool letter. If X lose much dollar at least X still cool letter.

      • ramplay@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        X is my least favourite letter because it’s literally synonymous with to much in math/computer science and other fields. Heck it even exists in the social media space as a xposting (crossposting)