Never mind, tweets should be called posts now

X is coming for every last mention of Twitter. | Image: The Verge

Last week, Elon Musk announced the death of Twitter as a brand. He had the sign on the HQ taken down and replaced with a garish X, and he axed the logo on the website and in the app, too. Lingering longer was the tweet" button itself. Today, the tweet button briefly changed to post, hinting that, soon, all evidence of the little blue bird and its associated Twitter will be scrubbed from every place X, the company formerly known as Twitter, can touch.

But that's not why I think it's time to retire the tweet." I wanted to save it. I felt that it was clearly becoming independent of the brand that had adopted it. I argued we should call all microblog posts tweets to avoid this goofy cycle of toots, skeets, threets, and now, xeets. But with...

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