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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] 12 points 8 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

How about trademarking Alphabet?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 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 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 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.