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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14106579

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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[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago

I don't even use Twitter, but I find it so enraging that no regular person could so publicly fail at their job and face no repercussion. I know that rich people have a totally different set of rules and playing a totally different game, but goddamn dude. I don't know how geeks, dorks, hacker-types, and techno-wizards, can continue to think that these MEGACORP leaders are anything but fuckin' losers. "BIG TECH" and even mid-sized tech companies are full of this sort of stupidity at the top. From a labor standpoint it really sucks that individuals or teams will get the heat for this not the management level for sort of thing.