• zahel@cosmere.xyzEnglish
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    2 years ago

    lol

    Elon the “Tech bruh” left a period in front of twitter so the redirect is broken - lmfao you can’t make this shit up.

  • Brudder Aaron@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Would this not be an advertisement nightmare (Not that Twitter isn’t already one) to try to change a recognized brand’s name to something completely different?

    Also lol Godaddy.com Motherfucker can afford to piss money and he chooses Godaddy.

    • yiliu@informis.landEnglish
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      2 years ago

      And on top of changing it:

      • ‘x’ isn’t searchable
      • It’s associated with a thousand things already…including porn
      • It sounds dated: as a culture, we went through an ‘x’ phase

      There’s just no sense in which this is a good idea…

  • Dukeofdummies@kbin.social
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    2 years ago

    Wait that was real?!? I thought that was satire!!!

    Jesus Christ that’s the kind of name an angsty teenager gives their life changing app.

    It’s the most milk toast edge you could possibly give a website.

    The only time that name is acceptable is for a website of nautical pirates.

    How did he even get the domain from the edgelord who had it before who refused to get into myspace and decided to build his own website from scratch?

    How many times did he have to misspell twitter before he put his foot down like this?

    But if X is twitter, how will he mark his emerald mines on his map at home?

  • Vamanos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    It’s an exceptionally rare thing — in life or in business — that you get a second chance to make another big impression," the chief tweeted. “Twitter made one massive impression and changed the way we communicate. Now, X will go further, transforming the global town square.”

    Yes yes. Indeed. I love referring to a company by a single letter. Think about all of the great SEO will come from this! Think about the great way this will unite us all!

  • ApeNo1@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Googles “go daddy x.com” to gather more information about the topic online…

    Frantically tries to press back on browser search hits as wife looks over and asks what the hell is on my screen.

  • zahel@cosmere.xyzEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Replacing a notable, at this point ingrained part of modern internet culture, to the letter “X” LMAO. Elon just doing whatever to stay in the headlines.

  • IrvEnglish
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    2 years ago

    This is a Kendall Roy move.

  • SJ0@lemmy.fbxl.netEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I think Musk is just living out his 90s/2000s edgelord fantasy. “I AM THE OWNER OF X. X IS EVERYTHING… TO THE XTREME!”

    • r00ty@kbin.life
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      2 years ago

      Godaddy AND cloudflare. twitter.com doesn’t use either, which coupled with the typo on the redirect makes this really feel like a very Musk initiated thing going on here.

      I bet he’s on the free tier of cloudflare too.

    • waigl@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Not necessarily, more like GoDaddy was the domain swatter that was holding on to that domain until Musk decided to pay the ransom. We cannot tell from the screenshot what registrar he uses for that domain now.

      We can, however, tell from whois, and what do you know, it’s godaddy…

  • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Who is this rebrand for? A lot of people have ignored the Elon mess and kept using Twitter because “Twitter is Twitter” but if he takes that away, and people have to say “I posted on X…” then I hope another wave of them will quit for good.

    • Drunemeton@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Knowing what little I know of the boy, Elon probably wants to make everyone start saying, “I’m on X,” or “You can find me on X” as a puerile Ecstasy (MDMA) joke.

      Of course they’ll no longer “Tweet” but instead they’ll “Xcrete”…

    • ashok36@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      What do you even call posts on X.com? Twitter had tweets. X has… What?

      Twitter as a name was pretty much perfect. It explained the entire platform in a word. Musk thinks he can turn it into a WeChat for the English speaking world and that’s just not going to happen.

  • bloopernova@programming.devEnglish
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    2 years ago

    muskrat probably read an email that said “we’ll go live with x pointing to twitter, but there’s a couple of things that have to happen first.”

    And only read the “x pointing to twitter” part.

    • r00ty@kbin.life
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      2 years ago

      I thought there was a different redirect on ipv6 for a moment, maybe there was for a short time.

      x.com on ipv4 maps to 104.18.16.213 and ipv6 maps to 2606:4700::6812:10d5 and that right now is a cloudflare server with a 302 redirect to “https://.twitter.com” most importantly is, SSL doesn’t work on it. It fails with an ssl error on curl.

      So, yeah. Quite a funny mess up.