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 wonder if they were also lazy (or dumb) enough to only do .com? Would for example .co.uk be renamed as well?
Twixer
Xitter
('X" is pronounced “Sh”)
Sell the twitter.com domain name you cowards.
I’m waiting for this day
That’s inviting phishing. Bad idea.
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.
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.
So now it’s “The Site, formerly known as Twitter”?
Nah. The ex site. Owned by an ex husband, ex father, ex respected-businessman
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I believe that his daughter disowned him.
No. He just decided he didn’t want to have a daughter who was trans, preferred not being a dad.
Shame on you for assuming anything that was not just sympathetic, but that didn’t completely make him look like the ass he is.
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Of everything?
No.
Of billionaires, especially the ‘tech’ billionaires?
You probably should.
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 Co fuse 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.
Like the nissan.com guy who actually won the right to keep his own site.
A solid defeat to leftism.
What’s leftism?
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)
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.
Owned by an ex husband and ex father! Yeah!
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.
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?
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
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.
Prob too many references to twitter.com in their code or whatever to fix or something similar?
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.
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”
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.
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.
ECKS
Let’s see if Antonio Bandaras and Lucy Liu are up for a sequel.
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…
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:
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
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.
Can you tell me, in fact?
The first one is X11.
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.
Or the XCOM games.
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.
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.
X is just a BAAAAAAD brand
So - a perfectly accurate name for the company then.
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
Elon is a living joke they already made in Futurama.
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Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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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…
It’s like that everywhere. Elon is a fucking idiot.
I would say incompetent as well
“Well that’s embarrassing” - everything Musk / X does
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.
