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
When Elon stops allowing deadnaming on Twitter, I’ll stop deadnaming his website.
They should switch the name to Wayland.com as a compromise.
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.
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.
I prefer Ex-twitter
The platform formerly known as Twitter.
Twatter
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Do you have that same problem with Twitter dot com?
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
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.
X-Com sounds pretty cool tbh
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.
He should just rename it to elon.social instead. That’s what I think of it nowadays and especially since the name change.
Is it social?
You’d think elon.bot maybe?
True!
“Well that’s embarrassing” - everything Musk / X does
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
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.
