A scammer's dream and a disaster waiting to happen.
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.”
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.
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.
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I wonder if they were also lazy (or dumb) enough to only do .com? Would for example .co.uk be renamed as well?
BRB, registering webetwitter.com for the lols…
Someone at Xitter should hire me ASAP! My development skills are on-par with Elon.
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.
thissitesutwitter.com
“Well that’s embarrassing” - everything Musk / X does
They should switch the name to Wayland.com as a compromise.
Sell the twitter.com domain name you cowards.
I’m waiting for this day
I wish the people know the alternative, like Mastodon for example
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.
Imaging paying 50 billion for a company and being too cheap to keep their old domain name
I hate Musk and I hate Twitter. But your comment doesn’t make sense. It would be cheaper to keep the old domain name.
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.
I only think of glass onion and chuckle to myself everytime I think of Elon.
Do you mean the song by the Beatles?
Of course, or the movie.
In 1981 IBM tried renaming the computer motherboard the ‘planar board’. Nobody would call it the planar board though.
So now it’s “The Site, formerly known as Twitter”?
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