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.”
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.
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.
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.
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
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!?
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.”
in case it breaks something, which it most likely will.
Partially because you didn’t escape the dots.
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.
He doesn’t just want the links to change. He wants the mindshare to change. To erase twitter.com from consciousness. Because X is like, super cool, man. So the solution is to rewrite tweets so it’s impossible to say the ungood name.
X is just a BAAAAAAD brand that it’s almost insulting the people who uses it, honestly were I’m from it sounds like an adult website…
Elon is a living joke they already made in Futurama.
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X is just a BAAAAAAD brand
So - a perfectly accurate name for the company then.
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.
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
It’s like that everywhere. Elon is a fucking idiot.
I would say incompetent as well
One of the rules of branding is to choose a unique name to prevent confusion. Half the time I see the X logo I don’t know if they’re talking about X11 or the website formerly known as Twitter
It’s funny that if you need to clarify X, you can say x11. If you need to clarify X, though, it’s still twitter
Oh, do you mean X the window manager or X the social media website?
The fact that a clarification like that needs to be made shows that Twitter has a branding problem.
Now, tell me which is which:
Can you tell me, in fact?
The first one is X11.
Top left is X11 which means bottom right is Twitter
I think it’s a trick question. Bottom right is https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F
Well you got me curious…
https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-x-logo-unicode-math-textbooks-2023-7
X is a window system not a window manager. The window manager is a client application that talks to the X server.
Actually it’s refered to Window System/GNU/ Linux
Can’t believe I didn’t catch that. Good catch.
The top left has some design aesthetic to it. Normally I’d assume the logo with the better aesthetics wouldn’t be an open source project logo, but given Musk probably fired anyone that could make a good logo, I’ll assume the more boring one (the lower left one) is the Xitter logo.
Heh, now as you mentioned, the logos do look very similar.
Not to mention that from a visual perspective the icon ‘x’ is synonymous with closing or exiting a window. It’s a horrible choice on so many levels.
Or the XCOM games.
My mate sent me a link to a twitter post that had the x.com link and for a moment I legit thought he sent me a porn link by accident.
LoL, it’s surprising to me that people still wanna look professional ( chase a career or start a business… Etc ) on that platform!.. Awkwaaard…
“Well that’s embarrassing” - everything Musk / X does
But is X gonna give it to us?
It’s funny cause X is as dead a platform as that artist…
People need to stop using Twitter. It’s like trying to using AOL or whatever now. It’s basically a dead product.
Let’s all start using AOL and MSN messenger
Msn messenger was perfectly fine, until people left me alone on there to join bloody skype
AIM using Pidgin client when not on IRC with mIRC or X-Chat. MSN Messenger was never even on the list.
/gatekeeps 00s IMs ;)
I too have underestimated the glee of right wing trolls at twitters turn around. They are keeping it alive somehow.
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
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.
It’s not only laymen either. I have Software Engineering friends who continue to use Twitter because RSS, Mastodon or any other alternative is “hard”. They have no core values or integrity whatsoever.
Why are they your friends, then?
Work “friends” or also known as colleagues. Sometimes you just make do.
Oh, I don’t have work friends. I only have coworkers. I used to have work friends, but they rarely were there for me when I got laid off twice.
that’s why it’s work “friends”.
Oh, hehe. I get it now. “friends.”
I really hope this is sarcasm. I couldn’t imagine basing my friendships solely on whether or not they use Twitter.
No, that’s not what I meant, though I’ve updated my original comment to add more context.
OP wrote:
They have no core values or integrity whatsoever.
Well, fuck that. Don’t be “friends” with people like that.
Reddit already existed and was a better option than Digg v3, sort of like how Digg was more useful than Fark for many. I don’t think there is a good replacement for Twitter yet because the people that create the best content are addicted to it.
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…
The greatest example was when digg changed how it operated with v4
What did they change exactly?
Digg used to look like this: http://web.archive.org/web/20100603035130/http://digg.com/
They updated it to this: https://web.archive.org/web/20101231083935/http://digg.com/news
And basically reduced the amount of user-content, to promote… their own stuff? I don’t remember what they replaced it with. Users got pissed; left for Reddit.
Now it looks like a typical corporate website: https://digg.com/
Literally the point.
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.
They should switch the name to Wayland.com as a compromise.
People on X with Nvidia cards are gonna have a bad time.
I dunno, I have a bunch of NVidia cards and when I’m on X, it’s like five hours of a REAAALLY good time.
They already are on that alt-right shit hole. Too bad people are too brain broken to love their outrage propaganda garbage.
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.
Someone at twitter has clearly never heard of the buttbuttination of Lincoln.
I don’t care what they do. If I have to refer to that social media platform/shitshow of a vanity project in any way whatsoever, I’m calling it Twitter.
Xitter.
An acceptable alternative
Pronounced shitter
Sell the twitter.com domain name you cowards.
That’s inviting phishing. Bad idea.
Not if someone runs a real site there.
Maybe a mastodon instance. I’ll put 20$ towards that.
Just because it’s a bad idea doesn’t mean Musk won’t do it. On the contrary.
With a domain as valuable as Twitter.com it’s very unlikely it would be sold to a phishing group.
I still don’t ever see this happening.
Usually they end up abandoned (can’t name your company “Twitter” the next tens of years) and get hacked for phishing.
Usually they’re not so big they became a verb.
I’m waiting for this day
The only time it’s ok to dead name anyone is, Twitter. Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Suck it elon!
It’s fine to deadname any corporation. Corporations are not people.
Biologically it is a twitter and nothing can change that.
What’s the name on its original articles of incorporation?
I’m waiting for someone to marry a corporation just to show how absurd the idea of corporate personhood is.
I’ll believe a corporation is a person when I see Texas fuckin’ execute one.
