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Twitter is now X (www.twitter.com)
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[–] Rentlar@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I wonder how many (e)X-twitter users there will be after this change.

Even Mastodon's old lingo "toot"ing sounds more trendy than "x"ing a comment.

[–] Master@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you remember back to your birthday cards as a kid when your loved ones put XOXO in the card... X is kisses.

So Xing is pronounced Kissing!

[–] andrai@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The X isn't kisses. The X stand for closes eyes and the O is an open mouth, hence XO = kiss emote and XOXO is the plural

[–] dan@upvote.au 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't "XOXO" mean "hugs and kisses"? The X represents a kiss and the O represents a hug.

[–] andrai@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah, you are right. Guess we used it wrong in school.

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