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As an aside, you can tell how successful the rebranding of twitter as “x” has been, since even now more than 2 years after the rebranding news articles still have to add “formerly known as twitter” every time they mention it.
That dumbass throwing away the Twitter brand for a damn letter should be proof enough to anyone that he's a moron
It's been two years and it's still going, despite the name change, or, you know, the owner throwing a nazi salute on live television.
It doesn't seem like the branding was as important as everybody seems to think, or any negative impact was offset by it staying on the news, good or bad, constantly.
But I also still say Facebook and Google instead of Meta and alphabet
Those are changes in parent company names though while the services Facebook and Google still exist. The rebrand of Twitter to X continuing to not stick for people is a much bigger failure on their part than Meta and Alphabet not entering the general zeitgeist.
Even Grok AI follows up with that reminder when it mentions X.