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Do you sometimes refer to X by its old name , Twitter ? That ’s o.k. . Even Elon Musk , the man who changed Twitter ’s name to X , still occasionally refers to the societal media platform he runs as Twitter .

“ Twitter summate far more characteristic with fewer people , ” said Musk in apost on XMonday .

The owner of X wasresponding to another invoice that praised DOGE , the advisory physical structure on regime efficiency which Musk leads , for its movement to slash the federal workforce . This weekend , Musk toldfederal employees to detail their work accomplishments from the previous hebdomad by Mondayor risk losing their job . However , a government activity functionary then tell Union employee thatthose performance reports were optional .

“ It worked for Twitter , ” the account Musk responded to said .

This isnot the first time Musk has called X by its former name , Twitter , and it likely wo n’t be the last .

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