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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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[–] moon@lemmy.cafe 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

You mean the X site (formerly known as bird)

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Because the purchase of Twitter was about power, not money.

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Owned by an ex husband and ex father! Yeah!