Y'know, they changed the name of an avenue nearby my childhood house from a single word name to the name of an obscure politician. This happened 30 years ago. People in the city still refer to it as it's old name so much that they might not even know the current name.
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I'm still calling it twitter.
I kind of like Xwitter, since the X almost looks like a sideways T, almost like it's gone into disrepair and fallen over, like a billionaire idiot had stopped paying the bills or was sabotaging it with his incompetence.
I'm calling it the "X-porn". :^)
I'll keep calling it what it is - Twitter
Personally I call it "Gone, but not forgotten"
What are we talking about?
Twitter the over-rated bullshit that got bought by Elon Musk who basically took it outback with a rifle and....
Oh wait a second, I see what you're doing.