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.”
The only time it’s ok to dead name anyone is, Twitter. Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Twitter Suck it elon!
It’s fine to deadname any corporation. Corporations are not people.
Biologically it is a twitter and nothing can change that.
What’s the name on its original articles of incorporation?
I’m waiting for someone to marry a corporation just to show how absurd the idea of corporate personhood is.
I’ll believe a corporation is a person when I see Texas fuckin’ execute one.
You know how you always mention that brock turner the rapist is a rapist because brock turner is a rapist who doesn’t want people to know that he, brock turner, is a rapist?
Same with elon, owner of the now failing Twitter, who was forced to buy twitter after over committing. Since the purchase elon, owner of the now failing Twitter, then proceeded to continually publicly fail for SOO LONG as he tried to unsuccessfully rebrand Twitter, the now failing site that elon musk owns, to x.
BRB, registering webetwitter.com for the lols…
I don’t care what they do. If I have to refer to that shitshow vanity project/social media platform at all, I’m calling it Twitter.
Xitter.
An acceptable alternative
Pronounced shitter
A solid defeat to leftism.
What’s leftism?
Twixer
Xitter
('X" is pronounced “Sh”)
When Elon stops allowing deadnaming on Twitter, I’ll stop deadnaming his website.
The only kind of reverse deadnaming that is ethical
I’ve been dead naming Puff Daddy since he first tried to change his name to Diddy.
Isnt his name K Diddler now?
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
X-Com sounds pretty cool tbh
From what i understand, it actually is a name he came up with in the early 2000s and have tried pushing it before.
I choose x.org
Man what a banger domain to have. Good on xorg
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
Maybe he just likes the game Xcom.
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.
Dot com is the high ground of web links though. The best real estate, basically.
Petty.
He doesn’t have control over what others think and say no matter what he tries.
Social media should be owned and operated by the people.
Love you lemmy/mastaon
Not just petty, but incredibly stupid. He bought one of the most recognizable brands on the planet. Everyone knows what a tweet is, a retweet, a quote tweet, hell, hashtags exploded in popularity because of Twitter. An entire community (re: customer base) self-organizing and inventing the concepts of your product for you, organically and for free - it’s any business owner’s wettest of wet dreams.
And then he threw that all down the drain because he couldn’t recognize what was right in front of his face. Either that or he did recognize, but still wanted to relive some tech fantasy he cooked up twenty years ago and can’t let go of. Either way, astronomically, gigantically, absolutely unfathomably stupid.
I’m still convinced that he’s actively and intentionally trying to destroy Twitter.
There is that (probably untrue) theory that the main reason he bought Twitter was because at the time, Twitter wouldn’t ban the ElonJet tracking account. Were that the case, it would kinda/sorta make sense that he’s want to kill the platform.
I only think of glass onion and chuckle to myself everytime I think of Elon.
Do you mean the song by the Beatles?
Of course, or the movie.
What happened to Xitter being a paragon of free speech? You can’t even say “twitter.com” without them censoring you.
How unfortunate they can’t deal with the spam bots quite so effectively.
So now it’s “The Site, formerly known as Twitter”?
Nah. The ex site. Owned by an ex husband, ex father, ex respected-businessman
Did his child die?
I believe that his daughter disowned him.
No. He just decided he didn’t want to have a daughter who was trans, preferred not being a dad.
Shame on you for assuming anything that was not just sympathetic, but that didn’t completely make him look like the ass he is.
Shame on you for assuming anything that was not just sympathetic, but that didn’t completely make him look like the ass he is.
Oh fuck of.
How the hell should I know that? I am not that invested in his life.
And sorry for not assuming the worst of absolutely everything?
Of everything?
No.
Of billionaires, especially the ‘tech’ billionaires?
You probably should.
I’m thankful that with my overkill combination of Firefox security extensions and various adblockers that they have completely broken the bird site from ever loading for me.
You mean the X site (formerly known as bird)
Owned by an ex husband and ex father! Yeah!
Nope. Twitter. My tracker blocker still shows that the URLs for them are coming from Twitter, and I’m pretty sure if you go to X it still redirects to Twitter. I don’t know why this is the case, but it is. I have no idea why he’d want to buy a recognizable company and remove the recognition though.
Because the purchase of Twitter was about power, not money.
Whatever, i’m still calling it Xitter.
I wish the people know the alternative, like Mastodon for example
I had just started to appreciate twitter when musk bought it and it turned to shit. The big advantage of it was that it seemed like pretty much everyone was on there to some extent. Mastodon doesn’t have anything like that user base, though it feels like it’s growing and I much prefer the UI.
