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.”
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.
When Elon stops allowing deadnaming on Twitter, I’ll stop deadnaming his website.
The only kind of reverse deadnaming that is ethical
I wonder if they were also lazy (or dumb) enough to only do .com? Would for example .co.uk be renamed as well?
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.
Some poor mfer’s shitty regex just got put on blast at a Twitter emergency software dev meeting.
Some poor mfer’s shitty regex just got put on blast
Oh fuck, oh fuck, oh fuck
at a Twitter emergency software dev meeting.
Oh thank goodness!!!
it would have been perfection if they had done this last thursday (on 4/04), add another fail to the list.
I’m thankful that with my overkill combination of Firefox security extensions and various adblockers that they have completely broken the bird site from ever loading for me.
You mean the X site (formerly known as bird)
Owned by an ex husband and ex father! Yeah!
Nope. Twitter. My tracker blocker still shows that the URLs for them are coming from Twitter, and I’m pretty sure if you go to X it still redirects to Twitter. I don’t know why this is the case, but it is. I have no idea why he’d want to buy a recognizable company and remove the recognition though.
Because the purchase of Twitter was about power, not money.
Sell the twitter.com domain name you cowards.
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.
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.
I don’t know if there’s much to study about this… make a product shittier and then rebrand to remove any positive brand association with the product when it was better in the past. Yeah, that’s a bad idea.
It’s insane. It’s like bandaid changing their name. Everyone calls adhesive bandages bandaids. Everyone calls micro blogging tweets. (In this niche community of fediverse users maybe not.)
Someone at twitter has clearly never heard of the buttbuttination of Lincoln.
A shame that the pioneering Japanese visual kei band stopped referring to itself as just “X” back in the mid-1990s. That would have been a trademark fight for the ages. (Or at least, the hair and costumes would have been more interesting than what Musk usually sports.)
X, the cowpunk band from Cali, would like a word with you. They were formed in 1980 and still perform.
As funny as it’d be, it needs to be something that could confuse a customer for that to be an issue. I don’t think people are going to get a band and a social media site mixed up.
Technically true, but they could still have an epic argument about the ownership of the x.com domain name.
People need to stop using Twitter. It’s like trying to using AOL or whatever now. It’s basically a dead product.
I too have underestimated the glee of right wing trolls at twitters turn around. They are keeping it alive somehow.
I am so puzzled by this. I’ve been using the Internet for 30 years, and in early 2000 people were much more standing up to principles. The greatest example was when digg changed how it operated with v4, people left it overnight. Now they prefer to be fucked over and don’t have any intention of changing it, and excuses are really lame like “alternatives are too hard”.
I think Yuval Harari was right and social media figured out how to hack our brains and control us.
Literally the point.
The greatest example was when digg changed how it operated with v4
What did they change exactly?
Funny, Nicholas Gurewitch, the creator of the comic Perry Bible Fellowship, just got his Facebook account stolen from him and made a comic about this subject, how he’s still addicted to social media despite that happening…
Porn twitter has been totally unaffected by all of this
So you mean setwitter.com ?
Well, let’s add a couple more X’s to the domain name then.
I thought Elon was insane for wanting to rebrand twitter but apparently he’s not alone.
It’s twitter. Always has been.
Let’s all start using AOL and MSN messenger
News sites also need to stop going on about it. Its like feeding the troll. I’ve never used the thing other than looking at it briefly in its early days, and yet I’m constantly hearing about it. And here I am commenting about this apparently (Western) globally important website which has served no purpose in my life. What a waste of energy all around. Self perpetuating negative feedback loop tech wank. Digital town square my arse. The little I know about it is from bad headlines which I wish I could unsee as its of zero consequence.
There’s a whole host of modern journalists who don’t know how the fuck to do their jobs without twitter, I’d put money on that being the reason we still read so much about it
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.
BRB, registering webetwitter.com for the lols…
