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.”
That’s inviting phishing. Bad idea.
With a domain as valuable as Twitter.com it’s very unlikely it would be sold to a phishing group.
I still don’t ever see this happening.
Usually they end up abandoned (can’t name your company “Twitter” the next tens of years) and get hacked for phishing.
Usually they’re not so big they became a verb.
Just because it’s a bad idea doesn’t mean Musk won’t do it. On the contrary.
Not if someone runs a real site there.
Maybe a mastodon instance. I’ll put 20$ towards that.