PuddingFeeling [she/her] to [email protected]English • 8 months agoElon Musk demands users stop ‘deadnaming’ Twitter after Stephen King trolls the billionairewww.advocate.comexternal-linkmessage-square94fedilinkarrow-up1440arrow-down126
arrow-up1414arrow-down1external-linkElon Musk demands users stop ‘deadnaming’ Twitter after Stephen King trolls the billionairewww.advocate.comPuddingFeeling [she/her] to [email protected]English • 8 months agomessage-square94fedilink
minus-squarehopelink38•8 months agoThe site metadata refers to it as Twitter for like, those media cards Facebook Messenger and Discord make when you send a link, so I guess to stop my browser from deadnaming the site I should just stop visiting it.
minus-square@CheeseNoodlelinkEnglish17•8 months agoTwitter itself still refers to itself as twitter on multiple parts of the website.
minus-square@dylanTheDeveloperlink5•8 months agoLord the chaos that would ensue if they changed the URL without redirecting from twitter would be a world wide funny. Like when tinypics shut down
The site metadata refers to it as Twitter for like, those media cards Facebook Messenger and Discord make when you send a link, so I guess to stop my browser from deadnaming the site I should just stop visiting it.
Twitter itself still refers to itself as twitter on multiple parts of the website.
They didn’t even change the URL.
Lord the chaos that would ensue if they changed the URL without redirecting from twitter would be a world wide funny. Like when tinypics shut down