X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs - eviltoast

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.”

  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Especially since when I hear dot com I think of the 90s or early 2000s, and specifically the dot com bubble.

    x.social or x.net sound way cooler tbh.

    Dot com is the high ground of web links though. The best real estate, basically.