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X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs (mashable.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world 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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[-] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

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

[-] andri@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

I wish the people know the alternative, like Mastodon for example

[-] Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

I had just started to appreciate twitter when musk bought it and it turned to shit. The big advantage of it was that it seemed like pretty much everyone was on there to some extent. Mastodon doesn't have anything like that user base, though it feels like it's growing and I much prefer the UI.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 11 points 7 months ago

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.

[-] tiredofsametab@kbin.run 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Someone at twitter has clearly never heard of the buttbuttination of Lincoln.

[-] debounced@kbin.run 10 points 7 months ago

it would have been perfection if they had done this last thursday (on 4/04), add another fail to the list.

[-] arin@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Imaging paying 50 billion for a company and being too cheap to keep their old domain name

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[-] sanimalp@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

BRB, registering webetwitter.com for the lols..

[-] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

So now it's "The Site, formerly known as Twitter"?

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[-] Dultas@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

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

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