[deadbabe]

With a name like Twtxt how are you supposed to easily talk about it with other people? Not even one vowel

[elpocko]

Not a huge problem: it existed for 9 years and no one is talking about it.

[kstrauser]

If it becomes popular, I’m pronouncing it “twixt”, even if it’s wrong.

[hackernewds]

I inferred Twittext so it's not ideally designed for virality

[bookofjoe]

https://imgur.com/a/XtEuaEd

[guerrilla]

This has to be it.

[linsomniac]

The upvotes on the pronunciation in the sibling comments should be considered legally binding and will be the authoritative pronunciation. Upvote carefully.

[sn0n]

I think I'd pronounce it as, Twit-ext?

[freetinker]

This is correct. The rest are incorrect.

[bityard]

Not a Welsh speaker, I see

[zeograd]

Intuitively, I read it as "tweetext"

[PNewling]

Huh, in my head I was reading it 'twit-text' (this is not meant to be a pejorative comment), but I guess that is ascribing it another 't' where there isn't one

[mikae1]

Talk? You write about it, on a (mechanical) keyboard.

[tux]

It kind of sounds like twitter extension. This is what i thought of it as when i first seen it. This can be very confusing.

[shakna]

Most of the community call it Yarn. They use twtxt as the protocol name - and it isn't like HTTP is one vowel.

[smitty1e]

I suppose that if one were motivated, one would run a https://github.com/plomlompom/htwtxt service and then point the audience to it.

Not clear that the juice would be worth the squeeze over, e.g. Mastadon.

[huijzer]

There is a long history of confusing or weird project names in computing like sqlite, gif, Splunk, Hadoop, Coq, MongoDB (from humongous apparently), yacc, C, R, and X (the window manager; not a lang or the social media site).

[JdeBP]

As its name says, "double u" is not just one but two vowels. (-:

[Aloha]

twit-text is how I would pronounce it.