  Here, we note how academics, journals and publishers should no longer refer
to the social media platform Twitter as such, rather as X. Relying on Google
Scholar, we found 16 examples of papers published in the last months of 2023 -
essentially during the transition period between Twitter and X - that used
Twitter and X, but in different ways. Unlike that transition period in which
the binary Twitter/X could have been used in academic papers, we suggest that
papers should no longer refer to Twitter as Twitter, but only as X, except for
historical studies about that social media platform, because such use would be
factually incorrect.
