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WP:COMMONAME, we currently can't change the title to X. One of the main arguments I've seen is that most reliable news outlets still use "formerly Twitter" in them. But I was scrolling through CNN
today, and strangely enough, in some articles, they dropped the the use of Twitter, and now fully use X. Two examples:
[1]A public farewell to Navalny is expected at the end of this working week, spokesperson Kira Yarmish said in a post on social network X on Monday.
[2]“Today is a historic day,” Kristersson said on X shortly after the vote.
If that were the case then the "Willis Tower" article would still be named as the Sears Tower. Absolutely nobody calls it that, same situation as what's going on with X, really. 2601:243:CE7F:B0A0:DDEC:5AEB:9270:27E4 (talk) 09:56, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don't even think their rebrand to X is finished. Why, you may ask? I got an email from X/Twitter Support, but instead of X Support, it said Twitter Support, so beyond the domain name, they still have some work to do. Unknown0124 (talk) 15:17, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I read the FAQ. Looked at the RMs. Couple thoughts:
Most prior discussions have low attendance, less than a dozen editors. I don't see discussions of long length involving the wider community.
The argument of discoverability is the same argument that Twitter is/was the better brand name. Hardly anyone will disagree with that, forever. It was an epic brand rename failure. Thus, we on Wikipedia will always argue that Twitter is more "discoverable", because it's fundamentally true on and off Wikipedia. Nevertheless, maintaining Twitter forever, for discoverability reason, is POV, essentially concurring with - and consciously indicating - it was a brand rename failure.
X.com redirects to twitter.com .. this is an extremely strong case for keeping Twitter for now. If/when the company changes to X.com, the case for Twitter gets weaker.
Wikipedia can follow the lead of many other sources using "X (formerly Twitter)" etc.. as an intermediary step, a deprecation step. This is already done piecemeal throughout Wikipedia.
I agree with concerns over small headcounts in the previous RMs. An RfC should probably be done in the future, with options like "X (social network)", "X (website)", "X (formerly Twitter)", and "Twitter" as titles. SWinxy (talk) 19:44, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]