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

[–] [email protected] 91 points 8 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 8 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

[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 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:

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 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 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can you tell me, in fact?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

The first one is X11.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Top left is X11 which means bottom right is Twitter

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 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 8 months ago

Or the XCOM games.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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