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Linda Yaccarino is leaving X

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539 points donohoe | 1 comments | 09 Jul 25 14:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | 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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cobbaut ◴[10 Jul 25 07:48 UTC] No.44518426[source]▶
> like naming your company "The" or "God".

or naming a product "Word" or "Office" or "Windows". :)

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1. smcl ◴[10 Jul 25 09:21 UTC] No.44519005[source]▶
Those can be easily identified as "Microsoft Word", "Microsoft Office" and "Microsoft Windows". However "X" is the name of the company and the product.

I guess you could refer to it as "X The Everything App" or using the incredibly corny and near-immediately-binned tagline "X: Blaze Your Glory!" but I've only ever seen those used by people making fun of the product, company, Elon or all three.