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.”
Sell the twitter.com domain name you cowards.
I’m waiting for this day
That’s inviting phishing. Bad idea.
Just because it’s a bad idea doesn’t mean Musk won’t do it. On the contrary.
They should switch the name to Wayland.com as a compromise.
People on X with Nvidia cards are gonna have a bad time.
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.
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
Ctrl+F: Twitter.com Replace all with: X.comSomeone at Xitter should hire me ASAP! My development skills are on-par with Elon.
Whatever, i’m still calling it Xitter.
For someone who is supposed to be smart, he’s an idiot.
What happened to Xitter being a paragon of free speech? You can’t even say “twitter.com” without them censoring you.
How unfortunate they can’t deal with the spam bots quite so effectively.
“Well that’s embarrassing” - everything Musk / X does
He should just rename it to elon.social instead. That’s what I think of it nowadays and especially since the name change.
I only think of glass onion and chuckle to myself everytime I think of Elon.
Do you mean the song by the Beatles?
Of course, or the movie.
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.
I wish the people know the alternative, like Mastodon for example
I had just started to appreciate twitter when musk bought it and it turned to shit. The big advantage of it was that it seemed like pretty much everyone was on there to some extent. Mastodon doesn’t have anything like that user base, though it feels like it’s growing and I much prefer the UI.
Are any of you fine lemmings currently in business school or studying marketing?
I wonder if this whole branding debacle is already actively studied and discussed in academia.
I don’t know if there’s much to study about this… make a product shittier and then rebrand to remove any positive brand association with the product when it was better in the past. Yeah, that’s a bad idea.
It’s insane. It’s like bandaid changing their name. Everyone calls adhesive bandages bandaids. Everyone calls micro blogging tweets. (In this niche community of fediverse users maybe not.)
Yeah true, but nothing drives the point home like a huge embarrassing real world example!
