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I continue to believe that after a few months have passed, Elon will flip and change the name back to Twitter.
I don’t know what he was trying to accomplish by changing the name of a service known around the world. Why toss all that name recognition out of the window?
Maybe he just wanted people to know that as owner, Twitter (or X) is his plaything, his Chew-Toy to do with has he pleases.

Right, and Twitter had evolved a whole set of handy language that gets lost with X.

For instance, there’s the verb “to tweet” and of course the message itself is “a tweet”. So someone could say hey did you see what Joe tweeted this morning? And then you could say yeah I saw his tweet.

But how do you do that with X? What is the X equivalent of a tweet called? Maybe an “X message”? The title of this article calls it a “piece from X” which is pretty clunky. And what’s it called when you post an X message? Does a person X an X message? Somehow X doesn’t seem well suited to being verbified.

OTOH, maybe the Twitter shorthands are now so embedded that X will just borrow them. If so, then people will still be said to be tweeting their tweets, and all that will change is that X will be used when directly referencing the business formerly known as Twitter...