The upcoming Europe-based W social network seems well intentioned, but there has gotta be a better name than W. Why draw attention to Twitter / X? And W has the most syllables of any letter. Admittedly “Micro.blog” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue either. 🤪

@manton every time someone says W, I think of George Bush…lol

@manton Missed opportunity for Y. Also: “dubya” has a huge negative connotation for Gen Xers like me.

@manton this service seem more and more suspect the more details is revealed, my theory is that W stands for what, why, who

@jemostrom I haven’t looked closely, does it sound like vaporware? It’s easy to announce a social network. Harder to build and scale it.

@manton to me it sounds like a company that wants to try to get people onboard something that is sketchy at best. I think the main selling point is that politicians, news companies, companies in the EU is starting look for alternatives to Twitter, so the timing is key here, they want get these people onboard to get momentum. Apparently the company consists of 1-4 people. My money is that will not remember this in 2027.

@manton Only just realized that it’s because W precedes X alphabetically

don’t think it’s just Gen Xers

@hjalm then surely Y is a better name?

@JohnPhilpin LOL You’re not wrong. There are excellent cases to be made for several letters. I can imagine a few