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.”

  • @[email protected]
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    899 months ago

    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
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      649 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
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      269 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        389 months ago

        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
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          619 months ago

          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
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            379 months ago

            You just passed the exam to be a Project Manager

            • @grue
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              69 months ago

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

            • @EdibleFriend
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              If I was elon I would have said ‘ship it you fucking code jews’

        • @[email protected]
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          89 months ago

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

          Partially because you didn’t escape the dots.

        • @bitchkat
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          19 months ago

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

        • @Whirling_Cloudburst
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          89 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      49 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.