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X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs (mashable.com)
submitted 10 months ago by Stopthatgirl7 to c/technology
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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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[–] [email protected] 208 points 10 months ago (8 children)

X is just a BAAAAAAD brand that it's almost insulting the people who uses it, honestly were I'm from it sounds like an adult website..

[–] [email protected] 104 points 10 months ago (4 children)

One of the rules of branding is to choose a unique name to prevent confusion. Half the time I see the X logo I don't know if they're talking about X11 or the website formerly known as Twitter

[–] ThePowerOfGeek 91 points 10 months ago

Not to mention that from a visual perspective the icon 'x' is synonymous with closing or exiting a window. It's a horrible choice on so many levels.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It’s funny that if you need to clarify X, you can say x11. If you need to clarify X, though, it’s still twitter

[–] Vorticity 40 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Oh, do you mean X the window manager or X the social media website?

The fact that a clarification like that needs to be made shows that Twitter has a branding problem.

Now, tell me which is which:

[–] bitchkat 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

X is a window system not a window manager. The window manager is a client application that talks to the X server.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Actually it's refered to Window System/GNU/ Linux

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Can’t believe I didn’t catch that. Good catch.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Can you tell me, in fact?

[–] laughterlaughter 7 points 10 months ago

The first one is X11.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Top left is X11 which means bottom right is Twitter

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

The top left has some design aesthetic to it. Normally I'd assume the logo with the better aesthetics wouldn't be an open source project logo, but given Musk probably fired anyone that could make a good logo, I'll assume the more boring one (the lower left one) is the Xitter logo.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

Or the XCOM games.

[–] takeda 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Heh, now as you mentioned, the logos do look very similar.

[–] bitchkat 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I immediately thought of the good old Scheiffler and Gettys book: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51YpMj4WSPL._SL500_.jpg

[–] abhibeckert 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

X is just a BAAAAAAD brand

So - a perfectly accurate name for the company then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I mean… stockX exists too

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My mate sent me a link to a twitter post that had the x.com link and for a moment I legit thought he sent me a porn link by accident.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

No worries, it sounds like an adult website pretty universally. There's three popular porn sites I can think of, which prominently have an X in their name.

[–] Cosmicomical 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Also it's not really a brand, it's just a fucking letter of the alphabet. It shouldn't be possible to trademark letters of the alphabet. Basic decency, people

[–] laughterlaughter 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

How about trademarking Alphabet?

[–] Cosmicomical 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Exactly. Believe it or not, someone invented that word at some point in history. And it wasn't google.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What? It’s just alpha and beta put together.

[–] Cosmicomical 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ok i see someone of us needs a refresher on the concept of invention

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I don't really have an issue with that. No one else was using it to do business in the tech space, at least.

It's a hell of a lot better than Facebook just stealing Meta from a company that was actively using it.

[–] 9point6 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/QDaKTTZtJZY

Elon is a living joke they already made in Futurama.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/QDaKTTZtJZY

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's like that everywhere. Elon is a fucking idiot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It a dumpster fire branding, that they took an extremely long time to actually implement, and they still spit out this absolute trainwreck of a rebranding rollout.