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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[–] 208 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (17 children)
  • [–] 104 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    One of the rules of branding is to choose a unique name to prevent confusion. Half the time I see the X logo I don't know if they're talking about X11 or the website formerly known as Twitter

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It’s funny that if you need to clarify X, you can say x11. If you need to clarify X, though, it’s still twitter

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    [–] 155 points 2 years ago (14 children)

    People need to stop using Twitter. It's like trying to using AOL or whatever now. It's basically a dead product.

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  • [–] 52 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I am so puzzled by this. I've been using the Internet for 30 years, and in early 2000 people were much more standing up to principles. The greatest example was when digg changed how it operated with v4, people left it overnight. Now they prefer to be fucked over and don't have any intention of changing it, and excuses are really lame like "alternatives are too hard".

    I think Yuval Harari was right and social media figured out how to hack our brains and control us.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    News sites also need to stop going on about it. Its like feeding the troll. I’ve never used the thing other than looking at it briefly in its early days, and yet I’m constantly hearing about it. And here I am commenting about this apparently (Western) globally important website which has served no purpose in my life. What a waste of energy all around. Self perpetuating negative feedback loop tech wank. Digital town square my arse. The little I know about it is from bad headlines which I wish I could unsee as its of zero consequence.

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    [–] 114 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Sell the twitter.com domain name you cowards.

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    [–] 89 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Why not just switch your site redirects? Instead of x.com opening twitter.com make them go to x, and eventually stop the redirects and put a landing page on Twitter with a link to x.com. How do you expect people to stop calling it Twitter when that's literally the site name even if you type in x.com

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  • [–] 64 points 2 years ago

    He doesn't just want the links to change. He wants the mindshare to change. To erase twitter.com from consciousness. Because X is like, super cool, man. So the solution is to rewrite tweets so it's impossible to say the ungood name.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Prob too many references to twitter.com in their code or whatever to fix or something similar?

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    find -type f -exec sed -i 's/twitter.com/x.com/g' {}\;

    Take a backup first in case it breaks something, which it most likely will.

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  • [–] 61 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I don't really know code but he has that curvy line and some different colors and shit so this should work. Ship it. No need to test.

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    [–] 87 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The only time it's ok to dead name anyone is, Twitter. Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Suck it elon!

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  • [–] 84 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Some poor mfer's shitty regex just got put on blast at a Twitter emergency software dev meeting.

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    [–] 57 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    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.

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    [–] 55 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    They should switch the name to Wayland.com as a compromise.

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    [–] 47 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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    [–] 38 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Not just petty, but incredibly stupid. He bought one of the most recognizable brands on the planet. Everyone knows what a tweet is, a retweet, a quote tweet, hell, hashtags exploded in popularity because of Twitter. An entire community (re: customer base) self-organizing and inventing the concepts of your product for you, organically and for free - it's any business owner's wettest of wet dreams.

    And then he threw that all down the drain because he couldn't recognize what was right in front of his face. Either that or he did recognize, but still wanted to relive some tech fantasy he cooked up twenty years ago and can't let go of. Either way, astronomically, gigantically, absolutely unfathomably stupid.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago
    Ctrl+F: Twitter.com
    Replace all with: X.com
    

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

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago (7 children)

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

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    [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    But is X gonna give it to us?

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    [–] 30 points 2 years ago (8 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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    [–] 30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Whatever, i'm still calling it Xitter.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I'm thankful that with my overkill combination of Firefox security extensions and various adblockers that they have completely broken the bird site from ever loading for me.

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    [–] 28 points 2 years ago

    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.

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    [–] 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    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.

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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.)

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    "Well that's embarrassing" - everything Musk / X does

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago

    Good. Let the platform die for good.

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