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X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs (mashable.com)

submitted 7 months ago by tree@lemmy.ml to c/technology@hexbear.net

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14106579

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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[–] WIIHAPPYFEW@hexbear.net 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

THEY HAVENT EVEN CHANGED THE ACTUAL FUCKING URL AFTER A WHOLE YEAR AND A HALF LMAO

[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 12 points 7 months ago

I'll bet that a lot of the devs that managed backend tooling are gone now and their scripts just won't work with "x.com" as the domain name.

The fact that they're essentially overwriting url hyperlinks instead of swapping domains shows that there's some sort of major bitrot happening behind the curtain.