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New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name
Get your shortnames while the getting’s good.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/new-twitter-launches-says-musks-x-gave-up-the-name/emoji3
Replying to @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
I didn’t like Twitter enough to join it when it didn’t cost $20.
Replying to @AgentSeven@lemmy.zip
I was stoked back when it first came out. ‘I can be snarky to a million strangers and promote my writing!?’ But even back in the '10s most followers were bots and any real people engaging in my posts were drowned by digital pedantry.