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    1 year ago

    Yeah, it’s just like when Prince changed his name. The media will just keep going “X, formerly known as Twitter” forever.

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      Prince changed his name to an unprinteable character so they had no choice.

      As I recall, some of the media used the short form TAFKAP (the artist formerly known as Prince).

      As for xtwitter, I vote for FKT. Pronounced as a word.

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        Close. He changed his name to a symbol. It was probably to get out of a recording contract, but the particular symbol he chose was non printable.