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.”

  • cum@lemmy.cafe
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    7 months ago

    I’m thankful that with my overkill combination of Firefox security extensions and various adblockers that they have completely broken the bird site from ever loading for me.

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        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.