Technology @lemmy.world Stopthatgirl7 @lemmy.world 7mo ago

X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs

mashable.com X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in users' posts, breaking legit URLs

A scammer's dream and a disaster waiting to happen.

On Monday, it appears X attempted to encourage users to cease referring to it as Twitter and instead adopt the name X. Some users began noticing that posts viewed via X for iOS were changing any references of "Twitter.com" to "X.com" automatically.

If a user typed in "Twitter.com," they would see "Twitter.com" as they typed it before hitting "Post." But, after submitting, the platform would show "X.com" in its place on the X for iOS app, without the user's permission, for everyone viewing the post.

And shortly after this revelation, it became clear that there was another big issue: X was changing anything ending in "Twitter.com" to "X.com."

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X is just a BAAAAAAD brand that it's almost insulting the people who uses it, honestly were I'm from it sounds like an adult website..
People need to stop using Twitter. It's like trying to using AOL or whatever now. It's basically a dead product.
Sell the twitter.com domain name you cowards.
The only time it's ok to dead name anyone is, Twitter. Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Suck it elon!
Some poor mfer's shitty regex just got put on blast at a Twitter emergency software dev meeting.
I don’t care what they do. If I have to refer to that social media platform/shitshow of a vanity project in any way whatsoever, I’m calling it Twitter.
They should switch the name to Wayland.com as a compromise.
When Elon stops allowing deadnaming on Twitter, I'll stop deadnaming his website.
Petty.

He doesn't have control over what others think and say no matter what he tries.

Social media should be owned and operated by the people.

Love you lemmy/mastaon
I've been thinking about this while on the toilet. Why there? Because that's about the only time I waste time thinking about Twitter.

Call it X. Call it muskX. Call it whatever

But don't call it Twitter

See, twitter is dead. X is trying to capitalize on the corpse.

Continuing to call it Twitter just gives validity and credibility to X by pretending that it's the same thing under a different name.

Call it Shitter, call it anything but what gives musk any validation at all
But is X gonna give it to us?
Whatever, i'm still calling it Xitter.
Ctrl+F: Twitter.com Replace all with: X.com

Someone at Xitter should hire me ASAP! My development skills are on-par with Elon.
For someone who is supposed to be smart, he’s an idiot.
What happened to Xitter being a paragon of free speech? You can't even say "twitter.com" without them censoring you.

How unfortunate they can't deal with the spam bots quite so effectively.
thissitesutwitter.com
I don't get why he's so stubborn on X dot com being a thing. Especially since when I hear dot com I think of the 90s or early 2000s, and specifically the dot com bubble.

x.social or x.net sound way cooler tbh.
A shame that the pioneering Japanese visual kei band stopped referring to itself as just "X" back in the mid-1990s. That would have been a trademark fight for the ages. (Or at least, the hair and costumes would have been more interesting than what Musk usually sports.)
He should just rename it to elon.social instead. That's what I think of it nowadays and especially since the name change.
Start, using, Mastodon.
"Well that's embarrassing" - everything Musk / X does
I only think of glass onion and chuckle to myself everytime I think of Elon.
Good. Let the platform die for good.
You know how you always mention that brock turner the rapist is a rapist because brock turner is a rapist who doesn't want people to know that he, brock turner, is a rapist?

Same with elon, owner of the now failing Twitter, who was forced to buy twitter after over committing. Since the purchase elon, owner of the now failing Twitter, then proceeded to continually publicly fail for SOO LONG as he tried to unsuccessfully rebrand Twitter, the now failing site that elon musk owns, to x.
In 1981 IBM tried renaming the computer motherboard the 'planar board'. Nobody would call it the planar board though.
I wish the people know the alternative, like Mastodon for example
Are any of you fine lemmings currently in business school or studying marketing?

I wonder if this whole branding debacle is already actively studied and discussed in academia.
it would have been perfection if they had done this last thursday (on 4/04), add another fail to the list.
Someone at twitter has clearly never heard of the buttbuttination of Lincoln.
Imaging paying 50 billion for a company and being too cheap to keep their old domain name
So now it's "The Site, formerly known as Twitter"?
BRB, registering webetwitter.com for the lols..
I wonder if they were also lazy (or dumb) enough to only do .com? Would for example .co.uk be renamed as well?
A solid defeat to leftism.
ECKS
Twixer

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