Letters to the Editor: The ‘X’-ing out of Twitter
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To the editor: Virginia Heffernan’s X analysis regarding Elon Musk’s name change for Twitter brings up some interesting points.
In tune with Musk’s public shift to conspiracy-driven, right-wing vitriol, the X name change seems to be progressing toward something worse and more sinister like a twisted cross, which many writers and analysts associated with the pre-World War II Germany Christian movement.
Heffernan’s symbolic references don’t go there.
Jim Hoover, Huntington Beach
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To the editor: Regarding Brian Merchant’s column on Elon Musk’s Twitter rebrand, all I can say is that Musk now has us all solving for “X.” It’s brilliant!
Jane Drucker, Studio City
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To the editor: The word “tweet” is a verb meaning someone has posted something important. X’d sounds like someone has just posted something crossing out something stupid.
Richard Holmen, Trabuco Canyon