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Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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543 points donohoe | 1 comments | 09 Jul 25 14:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source
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mihaic ◴[10 Jul 25 06:53 UTC] No.44518079[source]▶
Tangential, I still find it absurd people accept calling it X instead of Twitter. While I'd generally agree that most companies can change their name, encroaching on a basic letter should be off limits, like naming your company "The" or "God".

Still sticking with Twitter until a reasonable name is found, which by Musk is never.

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1. Cthulhu_ ◴[10 Jul 25 08:49 UTC] No.44518800[source]▶
Same with Facebook / Meta; the "metaverse" they tried to pivot the company to cost them billions and failed spectacularly. Google is still Google, not Alphabet, although separating the overarching org from the search engine / internet services branch was logical. They tried to pivot to social media with Circles, upheaving the whole company. The only good thing that (from an outsider's POV anyway) came out of that was unifying their logins across services.