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X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs (mashable.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 30 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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

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