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.”
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
Are you my company’s developer!?
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”
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.
When Elon stops allowing deadnaming on Twitter, I’ll stop deadnaming his website.
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
Whatever, i’m still calling it Xitter.
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
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.
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.
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.
Ctrl+F: Twitter.com Replace all with: X.comSomeone at Xitter should hire me ASAP! My development skills are on-par with Elon.
Start, using, Mastodon.
-he said on Lemmy Edit: *She
Mastodon is to Twitter as Lemmy is to Reddit.
I think they meant “you’re preaching to the choir.”
Ooooh
She, cmon I have Queen in the name
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.
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.
“Well that’s embarrassing” - everything Musk / X does
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.
Good. Let the platform die for good.
