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.”

  • @Cosmicomical
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    1211 months ago

    Also it’s not really a brand, it’s just a fucking letter of the alphabet. It shouldn’t be possible to trademark letters of the alphabet. Basic decency, people

      • @Cosmicomical
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        411 months ago

        Exactly. Believe it or not, someone invented that word at some point in history. And it wasn’t google.

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            11 months ago

            Ok i see someone of us needs a refresher on the concept of invention

      • @[email protected]
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        111 months ago

        I don’t really have an issue with that. No one else was using it to do business in the tech space, at least.

        It’s a hell of a lot better than Facebook just stealing Meta from a company that was actively using it.