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.”

  • arin@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Imaging paying 50 billion for a company and being too cheap to keep their old domain name

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      8 months ago

      I hate Musk and I hate Twitter. But your comment doesn’t make sense. It would be cheaper to keep the old domain name.