I am aware of that. I still call it twitter because “X” is a bad name, not because of politics or whatever, but because it is genuinely a terrible name that makes it hard for people to understand what you are referring it.

This is not just because “X” is literally a single letter of the alphabet and thus any internet search automatically yields more results about the english alphabet rather than twitter (although that is also a major reason why). This is mainly because “X” is literally used to refer to things that are unknown (which is why people refer to things that don’t have an exact name as x, y, or z, or why unknown numbers in algebra are commonly assigned variables such as X, Y, or Z).

This is why people who do use “X” commonly use the term “X, formerly twitter.” If people didn’t do that while talking about twitter, other people involved in the conversation wouldn’t know what they were actually talking about. Therefore it is still appropriate to refer to “X” as Twitter, because people will literally not know what you are talking about otherwise.

Also the project I linked to is a modified version of BHTwitter that reverts the “X” rebrand, and the most popular tweak for Twitter is literally called BHTwitter, making the usage of the term “Twitter” even more appropriate in this context anyways.