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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X is just a BAAAAAAD brand
So - a perfectly accurate name for the company then.
I mean… stockX exists too
No worries, it sounds like an adult website pretty universally. There’s three popular porn sites I can think of, which prominently have an X in their name.
Elon is a living joke they already made in Futurama.
Also it’s not really a brand, it’s just a fucking letter of the alphabet. It shouldn’t be possible to trademark letters of the alphabet. Basic decency, people
How about trademarking Alphabet?
Exactly. Believe it or not, someone invented that word at some point in history. And it wasn’t google.
What? It’s just alpha and beta put together.
Ok i see someone of us needs a refresher on the concept of invention
I don’t really have an issue with that. No one else was using it to do business in the tech space, at least.
It’s a hell of a lot better than Facebook just stealing Meta from a company that was actively using it.
It’s like that everywhere. Elon is a fucking idiot.
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It a dumpster fire branding, that they took an extremely long time to actually implement, and they still spit out this absolute trainwreck of a rebranding rollout.
Sell the twitter.com domain name you cowards.
I’m waiting for this day
That’s inviting phishing. Bad idea.
Just because it’s a bad idea doesn’t mean Musk won’t do it. On the contrary.
Not if someone runs a real site there.
Maybe a mastodon instance. I’ll put 20$ towards that.
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
Prob too many references to twitter.com in their code or whatever to fix or something similar?
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.
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.
You just passed the exam to be a Project Manager
We don’t always test but when we do, it’s in prod.
Fuck it! We’ll do it live!
“Everyone has a testing environment, but only some are lucky enough to have it separate from production.”
Elon? Is that you?
If I was elon I would have said ‘ship it you fucking code jews’
Elon affectiously refers to TWFKAT’s developers as “Kode Kike Klub”
Are you my company’s developer!?
in case it breaks something, which it most likely will.
Partially because you didn’t escape the dots.
Tell me you didn’t read the article without telling me you didn’t read the article.
Not like he doesn’t have the money to hire some people to get it done.
Not when he can just threaten everyone and tell them that they will all sleep on air mattresses at the office until it is done.
That’s what they’ve been doing. Shared links have been going to x, which redirects to Twitter. They started doing it the first time they tried changing and everything broke. This is their second try.
They should switch the name to Wayland.com as a compromise.
People on X with Nvidia cards are gonna have a bad time.
When Elon stops allowing deadnaming on Twitter, I’ll stop deadnaming his website.
The only kind of reverse deadnaming that is ethical
I’ve been dead naming Puff Daddy since he first tried to change his name to Diddy.
Isnt his name K Diddler now?
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
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.
I’m still convinced that he’s actively and intentionally trying to destroy Twitter.
There is that (probably untrue) theory that the main reason he bought Twitter was because at the time, Twitter wouldn’t ban the ElonJet tracking account. Were that the case, it would kinda/sorta make sense that he’s want to kill the platform.
Ctrl+F: Twitter.com Replace all with: X.comSomeone at Xitter should hire me ASAP! My development skills are on-par with Elon.
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
Interesting reasoning, but I prefer mine. I will keep calling it Twitter if only because its CEO fumes when it’s being called Twitter. And I’m okay with that.
It is usually spelt “xitter”
I’m partial to Twixxer myself.
Twatter
I prefer Ex-twitter
The platform formerly known as Twitter.
Call it twitter, but just make it a mastodon instance. Toots not tweets.
I just… don’t talk about it at all… Nothing of value is lost.
Whatever, i’m still calling it Xitter.
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.
For someone who is supposed to be smart, he’s an idiot.
I’m interested in why people have hyped him up to be smart?
I’ve watched a few podcasts with Elon as the guest and he comes across as average as an average person can be.
The only thing I’ve seen is that he jumps at opportunities he believes will be profitable, and has leveraged what he has against partners and adversaries for his own personal gain.
It came from a long time ago. See the power of people like Elon was being rich enough they could throw money at shit with little risk and also be rich enough to get smart people to do all the good shit.
But he was the face of it all for a long time, people legit saw him as the person who brought in electric cars (yeah i know he wasnt) and thinking space x is the rival to NASA.
Many people idolized him as a genius.
Then he ruined it, and you know why? Because he opend his fucking mouth just like the podcast you’re talking about and many people saw him for the idiot he was.
The problem? Elon himself believed the bullshit, he hinself thought he was a genius. And now hes trying to “run” things and its all falling to the ground. Because he never realized the only reason he had anything good was because of the actual smart people employed there.
Honestly, I’ll give Musk the credit for making electric vehicles cool. Not that he did the design or engineering, mind you, but that being stubborn about making electric vehicles “a thing” actually did move the industry towards electric vehicles proper, by throwing money at it and implementing a plan to make it more economically feasible. We all put a lot of faith in Tesla for being the ONLY company that seemed to be pushing forward with mass market EV adoption, when so many other companies were too scared to do it themselves. Now that there are more companies, and older established companies making EVs, and now that Elon has outed himself as kind of a twat, it’s easier to dismiss him. But I will give credit where credit is due. I don’t think we would see this boom in electric vehicles without him and Tesla kicking the car industry in the balls
Also Iron Man was a big movie at the time so people thought of him as the “real life Tony Stark.” That whole myth that you could have a super genius that could build a fusion reactor from a box of scraps was a thing at the time and here’s Elon Musk seemingly doing the same kind of thing.
Of course it’s silly, you have to have teams of people solving thousands of problems (big and small) to be able to get new technology.
But yeah it’s the most extreme version of the old saw “better to keep your mouth shut and have everyone assume you’re a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.” In Musk’s case, he could have kept his mouth shut and had everyone assume that he’s a genius.
He is so defensive all the time and it’s exacerbated by his insistence on being wrong. It makes him look extra stupid. It’s impossible for me to comprehend how he graduated from an Ivy League school.
Does anyone know if he use to have Handlers? I always figured the reason he got hyped was because he had people who did his social medias for him and got him good publicity like being on The Big Bang Theory and he thought it was all him. He then fired them all and people saw the real him.
It is because that is what he is trying to convince the internet to believe.
I’m almost certain he pays a meme troll farm to spread propaganda on the internet for him.
Start, using, Mastodon.
-he said on Lemmy Edit: *She
She, cmon I have Queen in the name
Mastodon is to Twitter as Lemmy is to Reddit.
I think they meant “you’re preaching to the choir.”
Ooooh
I’m still going to call it Twitter.
X sounds like a porn site of some kind. Fun fact, the government in India thought the same thing and banned it for that reason…for awhile.
Apparently it’s not a well known story, so I’ll remind everyone that India’s government banned many different porn sites within their own country’s internet access.
I don’t know if it’s at the DNS level or the actual IP address or what, but they banned almost every free porn site I’ve ever heard of, even more obscure ones like Jizzhut and alphaporno, even really really low budget ones that are just an index for a bunch of embedded videos from other sites
X sounds like a porn site of some kind
Ha, just like people gave you side-eye for mentioning ‘hotmail’ back in the 90s. “Hotmail, eh? Why do you need a raunchy e-mail address?”
I do agree that X is a stupid name.
I do agree that X is a stupid name.
It’s a great name for a porn site
see? I told you
I don’t even know which porn sites those are
I don’t know dude, some of those sites are unbanned.
Besides, you can get around the ban by using cloudflare warp
or a VPN like proton or mullvad
those cost money, cloudflare warp is free and it doesn’t really matter just for porn
Cloudflare is almost as bad as google. You shouldn’t use it.
Does it really matter?
https://developers.cloudflare.com/warp-client/privacy/
Regardless of whether you believe in their privacy policy or not, you’d only be using it to browse porn in this situation. it’s not that bad.
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.
how about x.org lmao
finally a use for the .fail TLD
I choose x.org
Man what a banger domain to have. Good on xorg
Maybe he just likes the game Xcom.
From what i understand, it actually is a name he came up with in the early 2000s and have tried pushing it before.
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.
Dot com is the high ground of web links though. The best real estate, basically.
Do you have that same problem with Twitter dot com?
Well, let’s talk about when Twitter was founded…
Yes but to a lesser extent. The name Twitter doesn’t sound like it’s trying to be “cool internet thing” as much as X
X-Com sounds pretty cool tbh
It’s “XCOM” nowadays. Since 2012, really.
