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.”

  • jolEnglish
    82·
    7 months ago

    You mean the X site (formerly known as bird)

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      7 months ago

      Nope. Twitter. My tracker blocker still shows that the URLs for them are coming from Twitter, and I’m pretty sure if you go to X it still redirects to Twitter. I don’t know why this is the case, but it is. I have no idea why he’d want to buy a recognizable company and remove the recognition though.