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.”

  • southsamurai
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    309 months ago

    I’ve been thinking about this while on the toilet. Why there? Because that’s about the only time I waste time thinking about Twitter.

    Call it X. Call it muskX. Call it whatever

    But don’t call it Twitter

    See, twitter is dead. X is trying to capitalize on the corpse.

    Continuing to call it Twitter just gives validity and credibility to X by pretending that it’s the same thing under a different name.

    Call it Shitter, call it anything but what gives musk any validation at all

    • @laughterlaughter
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      359 months ago

      Interesting reasoning, but I prefer mine. I will keep calling it Twitter if only because its CEO fumes when it’s being called Twitter. And I’m okay with that.

    • @NateNate60
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      69 months ago

      It is usually spelt “xitter”

      • @Threeme2189
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        19 months ago

        I’m partial to Twixxer myself.

      • @irreticent
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        49 months ago

        The platform formerly known as Twitter.