In other news, Oolong has FINALLY got what he always wanted and officially changed the URL for Twitter to x.com.
People will still call it Twitter, of course. It will always be “X, the site formerly known as Twitter” at best.
The most irritating thing about the changeover for me was that, when I went to the site not knowing it had happened, was that it opened up on the “for you” feed (which I normally try to avoid) and every second or third post on my proper feed was a fucking ad. Adblock is kind of dealing with it but the fucking page freaks out whenever I run the mouse over it so that makes actually using the thing practically impossible… I can scroll down and look at everything but can’t interact with any of it. So I think my long-standing threat to leave Twitter is finally coming about. I mostly just use it to follow some friends who are holding out, anyway, and to occasionally insult other people being unusually stupid, so not much of a loss… and yet sad for all that.
