X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, is facing 2,200 arbitration cases that ex-employees filed after Elon Musk took over the company, slashed headcount, and made other sweeping changes there. The filing fees alone for that volume of cases could amount to $3.5 million.

The arbitration numbers were revealed in a new filing out Monday as part of a lawsuit in a Delaware district court. The case is Chris Woodfield v. Twitter, X Corp. and Elon Musk (No. 1:23-cv-780-CFC).

As CNBC has previously reported, many large corporations require workers to sign an arbitration agreement upon employment wherever it is legal to do so. This means to speak freely in court, where their speech can become part of a public record, workers would first need to get an exemption from a judge.

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    I get a kick out of every time a journalist feels they need to specify “formerly known as Twitter” because X is such a generic, indistinguishable brand.

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      I think it would be better to say “Twitter, currently branded as X” it is both useful and makes it look like it is just a cringy phase a teenager might go through temporarily. So you should just ignore the change and it will eventually resolve itself.

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      I continue to use “twitter” because Musk is a transphobe. If he feels obligated to deadname or misgender people, or defend those who do, I don’t see the need to follow what he wants to identify as, either.

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        So if Musk were to immediately stop deadnaming trans people, would you immediately stop “deadnaming” Twitter?

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          If Elmo owned up to and apologized for his transphobia, resolving not to do that kind of thing again in the future, I would be more than happy to call his microblogging service whatever he ends up deciding to name it. I’m not sure this is going to be enough to convince him, but go ahead and forward that along if you think it will help.

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      Might as well just call it Twitter. The only people that go along with calling it “X” are chuds and Musk sycophants.

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          99% sure there’s to much code with logic checking for the Twitter domain (including in external dependencies!) that they don’t know how to mirror the site correctly on x.com

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            Also wouldn’t be surprised to find out X is a problematic name to use when programming a social media website.

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            Elon could make things even worse by hastening that transition. If the x-twitter app is down for a few weeks and all external connections break for a few month, it’s going to be just fine. I’m pretty sure that it would only improve the quality of life of all twitter users.

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        It is Twitter, and I’ll be Twitter until it’s shutdown. Only morons who are into crypto ponzi schemes call it X unironically, expecting Elon to be their friend somehow

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      Like or hate Elon, I hope everyone can agree the name change is incredibly stupid. X… X what? X me later. Did you see that X?.. Uh huh.

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      There are a lot of jokes to be made about Twitter referencing the disasterpiece movie “Foodfight!” and its villains fighting for “Brand X”.