X’s new terms of service insist that tweets are now posts

X really wants you to forget about Twitter - and that includes in its terms of service. Users are starting to see pop-ups about new terms that go into effect on September 29th, and one adjustment is two instances of retweet" (the only use of tweet" in the current terms) to repost," essentially putting the final stamp in the death of the word tweet.

There are a bunch of other branding changes in the new terms, including a nearly wholesale removal of the word Twitter" in favor of X. I say nearly wholesale because, hilariously, many of the URLs included in the terms still seemingly have to include the word twitter," like in this link to a developer-focused website: https://developer.x.com/en/docs/twitter-for-websites. There have been...

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