Two years after Elon Musk rebranded Twitter to X, most of us still say we “tweeted” because saying, “I Xed” sounds ridiculous. But that vestigial act may soon lose its last tenuous thread of connection to the once-iconic brand name. Next month, X plans to “retire the Twitter domain.”

In the scheme of things, this isn’t a big deal. We’ve mostly stopped saying and writing, “on X (formerly Twitter),” and when you open X, there are virtually no indications that it ever featured a bird-related name. I said “virtually,” but more on that in a bit.