X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in users' posts, breaking legit URLs
mashable.com
A scammer's dream and a disaster waiting to happen.

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.”

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4010·
    7 months ago

    I’ve been thinking about this while on the toilet. Why there? Because that’s about the only time I waste time thinking about Twitter.

    Call it X. Call it muskX. Call it whatever

    But don’t call it Twitter

    See, twitter is dead. X is trying to capitalize on the corpse.

    Continuing to call it Twitter just gives validity and credibility to X by pretending that it’s the same thing under a different name.

    Call it Shitter, call it anything but what gives musk any validation at all