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Twitter is now X(www.twitter.com)

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andrai@feddit.de
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The X isn’t kisses. The X stand for closes eyes and the O is an open mouth, hence XO = kiss emote and XOXO is the plural

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dan@upvote.au
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Doesn’t “XOXO” mean “hugs and kisses”? The X represents a kiss and the O represents a hug.

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Burnt@lemmy.one
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That was always my understanding of it.

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andrai@feddit.de
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Yeah, you are right. Guess we used it wrong in school.

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Vashti@feddit.uk
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You’re interpreting a much older shorthand with online emoticon rules. XO is a closed-eye open-mouth emoticon, but XOXO has been “hugs and kisses” for long enough to have been used when people wrote letters by hand.

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Silent-G@beehaw.org
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That never made sense to me. X is the shape of two people hugging and O is the shape of pursed lips.

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dan@upvote.au
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Yeah I don’t get it either, but it’s been that way for so long that we as a society probably stopped questioning it.

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linuxduck@nerdly.dev
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Yeah that’s what I grew up learning and my mom taught me that x is kisses o is hugs. Til that it’s seen and way!

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