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X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs (mashable.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Stopthatgirl7@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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."

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[–] Hypx@fedia.io 155 points 1 year ago (28 children)

People need to stop using Twitter. It's like trying to using AOL or whatever now. It's basically a dead product.

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Let's all start using AOL and MSN messenger

[–] Cosmicomical@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Msn messenger was perfectly fine, until people left me alone on there to join bloody skype

[–] Erdgeist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

And Skype was great until Microsoft bought it.

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