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.”
I don’t get why he’s so stubborn on X dot com being a thing. Especially since when I hear dot com I think of the 90s or early 2000s, and specifically the dot com bubble.
x.social or x.net sound way cooler tbh.
how about x.org lmao
finally a use for the .fail TLD
I choose x.org
Man what a banger domain to have. Good on xorg
Maybe he just likes the game Xcom.
From what i understand, it actually is a name he came up with in the early 2000s and have tried pushing it before.
Dot com is the high ground of web links though. The best real estate, basically.
Do you have that same problem with Twitter dot com?
Well, let’s talk about when Twitter was founded…
Yes but to a lesser extent. The name Twitter doesn’t sound like it’s trying to be “cool internet thing” as much as X
X-Com sounds pretty cool tbh
It’s “XCOM” nowadays. Since 2012, really.