I think we should use the word Twitter consciously independent from Musk’s weird “Everything”-platform but as a more general term to describe these types of social media platforms. The truth is that the idea behind the word “Twitter” had nothing to do with the actual platform a long time ago. The common story now is that Elmo bought Twitter and killed it – or thought he did (which implies that he even could) but it was never his to kill, because ideas life forever. Good old Barbie wisdom. All he did was destroy a platform he bought. And also, micro-blogging just sounds dull and doesn’t even feel like what happens on these platforms. Whether you are using Threads or X or Rio, it doesn’t matter, what you are doing there is the same: you tweet. Just with better or worse moderation. As other noted before, the word tweeting will not just go away with the end of one platform. It will stay and the idea attached to it. The only question is which platform realizes the dream the most satisfactory and I still think the Fediverse has a good shot.