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RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address

variety.com RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address

Elon Musk is retiring the last vestige of Twitter -- the twitter.com web address -- as the social network has fully moved over to x.com.

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Imagine spending 40 billion dollars on one of the most recognizable brands in history, so deeply embedded in the public consciousness that any other company would throw virgins into a volcano for a chance at that level of recognition, just to replace all of that branding with your own little name that everyone has been telling you sounds stupid for the last 25 years
- It's so much so that every news article that quotes it still says "X, formerly Twitter".
  
  That's because X means absolutely nothing. It's a letter commonly used to fill in blanks. It's an awful name for any company/brand.
  
  I've seen and prefer "Twitter, now X".
- Welcome to the mind of a narcissist.
  
  i think that gives him too much credit. he's just fucking dumb and bad at everything. he failed upwards so long because he wasn't too visible in the public eye. now he's terminally online and constantly embarrassing himself and his companies.
- Yes, I mean how many companies get their brand turned into a verb?
  
  It’s like someone buying Kleenex and going “Nope, it’s called K now.”
- IMHO it was more about preventing more social justice movements akin to #metoo
I’m personally a fan of his new site for twitter media: xvideos.
- And the one dedicated to cute animal photos, xhamster.
  
  And the one formerly known as twitterntwittertwitter. It's a bit of a stretch so tell me if you got it.
- You guys are joking but Elon is going to ruin porn sites next. Let's see who has the last laugh then.
  
  The only way he could ruin porn sites was if the site's content were replaced with only videos of Elon gyrating his hips to Eye of the Tiger, while wearing one of those Borat bathing suits, never breaking eye contact with the camera.
...and breaks it on privacy-preserving browsers

win-win I guess
We'll definitely start calling it X now, definitely.
Still gonna squat on to the domain though.
- I see that as a good thing. Prevents it rising from the grave.
  
  Honestly, I’d actually love to see some rando grab the domain and rebuild the site as it was before Musk, or turn it into a Mastodon instance. Not because I enjoyed pre-musk Twitter, but purely because it would piss Musk off to have to compete.
  
  Also it would me a massive global security issue if allowed to fall on malicious hands. I mean, other than the CEO's.
  
  Please think of the poor malware developers.
- I don’t think they sell those domains
The thing that makes me most sad is that the old Twitter is genuinely why I have the career and connections I do today. Now I can’t even stand opening the site.
- I feel incredibly bad for small creators that still rely on it for an audience and can't simply afford to market themselves without it.
Google X videos for more info
So it's available?
- Doubtful. It will probably just redirect
  
  He was dumb enough to let X expire, maybe he'll do the same thing here.
Ah yes, the everything-falling-apart-app
I heard that he also moved the CDN for user-uploaded videos to xvideos.com
- Not all of them. The cute ones are on xhamster.com
  
  His newest social media venture is focused on a niche of extreme exploration, named the Xtreme Network for Xtraordinary Xploration. You can find it at xnxx.com.
I'll give him credit on this: It's not dead yet. I'm genuinely surprised about that.
- Not for lack of trying from his part.
- He's doing his level best to kill it.
Pretty funny that it took that long. Expertly executed rebrand.
- do you mean Xpertly Xecuted
THIS IS AN X-PARROT!
- The Twitter bird isnt dead, it's just pining for the fjords
What a pitiful community this is.

Stop posting about Twitter

this isnt relevant to technology
- Is this some type of advanced haiku
  
  On technology
  
  Twitter trash served yet again
  
  A protest rageku
Now how's Robotnik supposed to tell us if Shadow pissed on his wife without twitter.com
- He'll do it on truth social.
Elmo thinks the "X" makes it "extra cool."
Man I never wanted a cyberdisk to show up more than I do right now
eXtremely egregious.
This dude is high.

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