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X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs (mashable.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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."

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[–] Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip 89 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] tedu@azorius.net 64 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] Supervivens@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Prob too many references to twitter.com in their code or whatever to fix or something similar?

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 61 points 6 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 37 points 6 months ago

You just passed the exam to be a Project Manager

[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 25 points 6 months ago (2 children)

We don't always test but when we do, it's in prod.

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

Fuck it! We'll do it live!

[–] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

"Everyone has a testing environment, but only some are lucky enough to have it separate from production."

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Elon? Is that you?

[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

If I was elon I would have said 'ship it you fucking code jews'

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 2 points 6 months ago

Elon affectiously refers to TWFKAT's developers as "Kode Kike Klub"

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 4 points 6 months ago

Are you my company's developer!?

[–] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 months ago

in case it breaks something, which it most likely will.

Partially because you didn't escape the dots.

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Tell me you didn't read the article without telling me you didn't read the article.

[–] Itsamelemmy@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Not like he doesn't have the money to hire some people to get it done.

[–] Whirling_Cloudburst@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

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.