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

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."

Snapz ,

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.

sanimalp ,

BRB, registering webetwitter.com for the lols..

Zink ,

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.

SpaceCowboy ,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

I don't know if there's much to study about this... make a product shittier and then rebrand to remove any positive brand association with the product when it was better in the past. Yeah, that's a bad idea.

Zink ,

Yeah true, but nothing drives the point home like a huge embarrassing real world example!

JackbyDev ,

It's insane. It's like bandaid changing their name. Everyone calls adhesive bandages bandaids. Everyone calls micro blogging tweets. (In this niche community of fediverse users maybe not.)

HawlSera ,

Start, using, Mastodon.

Mun_Walker , (edited )

-he said on Lemmy
Edit: *She

capital ,

Mastodon is to Twitter as Lemmy is to Reddit.

ilinamorato ,

I think they meant "you're preaching to the choir."

capital ,

Ooooh

HawlSera ,

She, cmon I have Queen in the name

CosmicCleric ,
@CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

In 1981 IBM tried renaming the computer motherboard the 'planar board'. Nobody would call it the planar board though.

EmperorHenry ,
@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I'm still going to call it Twitter.

X sounds like a porn site of some kind. Fun fact, the government in India thought the same thing and banned it for that reason...for awhile.

Apparently it's not a well known story, so I'll remind everyone that India's government banned many different porn sites within their own country's internet access.

I don't know if it's at the DNS level or the actual IP address or what, but they banned almost every free porn site I've ever heard of, even more obscure ones like Jizzhut and alphaporno, even really really low budget ones that are just an index for a bunch of embedded videos from other sites

MenacingPerson ,

I don't know dude, some of those sites are unbanned.

Besides, you can get around the ban by using cloudflare warp

EmperorHenry ,
@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

or a VPN like proton or mullvad

MenacingPerson ,

those cost money, cloudflare warp is free and it doesn't really matter just for porn

EmperorHenry ,
@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Cloudflare is almost as bad as google. You shouldn't use it.

MenacingPerson ,

Does it really matter?

https://developers.cloudflare.com/warp-client/privacy/

Regardless of whether you believe in their privacy policy or not, you'd only be using it to browse porn in this situation. it's not that bad.

elephantium ,
@elephantium@lemmy.world avatar

X sounds like a porn site of some kind

Ha, just like people gave you side-eye for mentioning 'hotmail' back in the 90s. "Hotmail, eh? Why do you need a raunchy e-mail address?"

I do agree that X is a stupid name.

EmperorHenry ,
@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

I do agree that X is a stupid name.

It's a great name for a porn site

SkyezOpen ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/974676d7-12b1-431c-82a1-9616bcdc911b.jpeg

EmperorHenry ,
@EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

see? I told you

I don't even know which porn sites those are

Eyck_of_denesle ,

Good. Let the platform die for good.

apocalypticat ,
@apocalypticat@lemmy.world avatar 
Ctrl+F: Twitter.com
Replace all with: X.com

Someone at Xitter should hire me ASAP! My development skills are on-par with Elon.

LunaCtld ,
@LunaCtld@lemmy.world avatar

He should just rename it to elon.social instead. That's what I think of it nowadays and especially since the name change.

Deceptichum ,
@Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works avatar

Is it social?

You’d think elon.bot maybe?

LunaCtld ,
@LunaCtld@lemmy.world avatar

True!

anon_8675309 ,

For someone who is supposed to be smart, he’s an idiot.

lemmyingly ,

I'm interested in why people have hyped him up to be smart?

I've watched a few podcasts with Elon as the guest and he comes across as average as an average person can be.

The only thing I've seen is that he jumps at opportunities he believes will be profitable, and has leveraged what he has against partners and adversaries for his own personal gain.

trustnoone ,

It came from a long time ago. See the power of people like Elon was being rich enough they could throw money at shit with little risk and also be rich enough to get smart people to do all the good shit.

But he was the face of it all for a long time, people legit saw him as the person who brought in electric cars (yeah i know he wasnt) and thinking space x is the rival to NASA.

Many people idolized him as a genius.

Then he ruined it, and you know why? Because he opend his fucking mouth just like the podcast you're talking about and many people saw him for the idiot he was.

The problem? Elon himself believed the bullshit, he hinself thought he was a genius. And now hes trying to "run" things and its all falling to the ground.
Because he never realized the only reason he had anything good was because of the actual smart people employed there.

SpaceCowboy ,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

Also Iron Man was a big movie at the time so people thought of him as the "real life Tony Stark." That whole myth that you could have a super genius that could build a fusion reactor from a box of scraps was a thing at the time and here's Elon Musk seemingly doing the same kind of thing.

Of course it's silly, you have to have teams of people solving thousands of problems (big and small) to be able to get new technology.

But yeah it's the most extreme version of the old saw "better to keep your mouth shut and have everyone assume you're a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." In Musk's case, he could have kept his mouth shut and had everyone assume that he's a genius.

omicron ,

Honestly, I'll give Musk the credit for making electric vehicles cool. Not that he did the design or engineering, mind you, but that being stubborn about making electric vehicles "a thing" actually did move the industry towards electric vehicles proper, by throwing money at it and implementing a plan to make it more economically feasible. We all put a lot of faith in Tesla for being the ONLY company that seemed to be pushing forward with mass market EV adoption, when so many other companies were too scared to do it themselves. Now that there are more companies, and older established companies making EVs, and now that Elon has outed himself as kind of a twat, it's easier to dismiss him. But I will give credit where credit is due. I don't think we would see this boom in electric vehicles without him and Tesla kicking the car industry in the balls

Honytawk ,

It is because that is what he is trying to convince the internet to believe.

I'm almost certain he pays a meme troll farm to spread propaganda on the internet for him.

tacosanonymous ,

He is so defensive all the time and it’s exacerbated by his insistence on being wrong. It makes him look extra stupid. It’s impossible for me to comprehend how he graduated from an Ivy League school.

LockheedTheDragon ,

Does anyone know if he use to have Handlers? I always figured the reason he got hyped was because he had people who did his social medias for him and got him good publicity like being on The Big Bang Theory and he thought it was all him. He then fired them all and people saw the real him.

FJT ,

A solid defeat to leftism.

anon_8675309 ,

What’s leftism?

sibannac ,

An idea.

Dultas ,

I wonder if they were also lazy (or dumb) enough to only do .com? Would for example .co.uk be renamed as well?

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

When Elon stops allowing deadnaming on Twitter, I'll stop deadnaming his website.

PuddingFeeling907 ,
@PuddingFeeling907@lemmy.ca avatar

The only kind of reverse deadnaming that is ethical

cmbabul ,

I’ve been dead naming Puff Daddy since he first tried to change his name to Diddy.

Deceptichum ,
@Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works avatar

Isnt his name K Diddler now?

MilitantAtheist ,

I only think of glass onion and chuckle to myself everytime I think of Elon.

MadBigote ,

Do you mean the song by the Beatles?

MilitantAtheist ,

Of course, or the movie.

DumbAceDragon ,
@DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works avatar

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.

isolatedscotch ,

how about x.org lmao

yuriy ,

finally a use for the .fail TLD

zarkanian ,
@zarkanian@sh.itjust.works avatar

Do you have that same problem with Twitter dot com?

DumbAceDragon ,
@DumbAceDragon@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yes but to a lesser extent. The name Twitter doesn't sound like it's trying to be "cool internet thing" as much as X

JonEFive ,

Well, let's talk about when Twitter was founded...

uis ,
@uis@lemm.ee avatar

I choose x.org

Emerald ,

Man what a banger domain to have. Good on xorg

FJT ,

X-Com sounds pretty cool tbh

NostraDavid ,
@NostraDavid@programming.dev avatar

It's "XCOM" nowadays. Since 2012, really.

Murdoc ,

Maybe he just likes the game Xcom.

CosmicCleric ,
@CosmicCleric@lemmy.world avatar

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.

Dot com is the high ground of web links though. The best real estate, basically.

trustnoone ,

From what i understand, it actually is a name he came up with in the early 2000s and have tried pushing it before.

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