On Whatever I'm talking about the name change of Twitter to X, what it means to me and others, and why I'm going to be on that site much less from now on.

(Also it means Mastodon will be a beneficiary, as probably a lot of things that would previously had been tweets will now become toots. Although I will have to remember to put a hashtag on the political stuff, I sometimes forget that)

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2023/07/24/preparing-my-x-it/

Preparing My X-it

Overnight, not unlike an NFL owner silently absconding with a whole football team to move it to a new town, Elon Musk decided to change the name of Twitter to “X,” which, for those of y…

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@scalzi

Glad to hear it. Only started on twitter when William Gibson stopped blogging for it. It has always been my way of following writers. When Musk first bought the site I updated RSS on everyone I followed fearing this.

Really have no desire for bluesky or Threads.

You and Cory should teach courses on internet marketing. Owning your own site is never the wrong decision.