RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address (variety.com)
from return2ozma@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 16:59
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eager_eagle@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 17:08 next collapse

…and breaks it on privacy-preserving browsers

win-win I guess

tsonfeir@lemm.ee on 17 May 2024 17:30 next collapse

Still gonna squat on to the domain though.

BearOfaTime@lemm.ee on 17 May 2024 17:37 next collapse

I see that as a good thing. Prevents it rising from the grave.

jol@discuss.tchncs.de on 17 May 2024 18:16 next collapse

Also it would me a massive global security issue if allowed to fall on malicious hands. I mean, other than the CEO’s.

CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world on 18 May 2024 08:55 collapse

What’s funny is that it’s also probably an internal security risk as well. I mean who knows, there’s probably at least one of their internal servers that still accepts credentials or keys from the dead domain. Not to mention their emails probably aren’t transferred.

All of that could be fixed but you’d have to, ya know, not fire your programmers.

Sabata11792@kbin.social on 17 May 2024 19:32 next collapse

Please think of the poor malware developers.

PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world on 18 May 2024 01:38 collapse

Honestly, I’d actually love to see some rando grab the domain and rebuild the site as it was before Musk, or turn it into a Mastodon instance. Not because I enjoyed pre-musk Twitter, but purely because it would piss Musk off to have to compete.

stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 18 May 2024 08:30 collapse

Nah, just grab the domain and redirect it to X. Watch him explode.

pyre@lemmy.world on 18 May 2024 09:09 collapse

that’s what it does now

Petter1@lemm.ee on 18 May 2024 06:54 collapse

I don’t think they sell those domains

Z3k3@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 18:29 next collapse

Man I never wanted a cyberdisk to show up more than I do right now

Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 19:40 next collapse

We’ll definitely start calling it X now, definitely.

BroBot9000@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 19:52 collapse

We should!

Stop humouring the assholes that are still on that bigoted network.

Every time someone calls it twitter, don’t give them the satisfaction of disassociating themselves from Musky’s X.

Oh so you’re an X’er. You like to Xeet a lot eh?

Sunny@slrpnk.net on 17 May 2024 21:59 next collapse

This is pretty funny actually, I’ll start doing this 😅

leftzero@lemmynsfw.com on 17 May 2024 22:32 next collapse

It’s called xitter, and it’s full of xit(s).

erwan@lemmy.ml on 18 May 2024 13:50 collapse

Let’s call people who grow up with X the “X gen”.

Moobythegoldensock@lemm.ee on 17 May 2024 19:40 next collapse

I’m personally a fan of his new site for twitter media: xvideos.

Sicklad@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 19:49 next collapse

And the one dedicated to cute animal photos, xhamster.

Threeme2189@lemmy.world on 18 May 2024 08:40 collapse

And the one formerly known as twitterntwittertwitter. It’s a bit of a stretch so tell me if you got it.

rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee on 18 May 2024 08:54 collapse

Yes

LittleBorat2@lemmy.ml on 18 May 2024 07:21 collapse

You guys are joking but Elon is going to ruin porn sites next. Let’s see who has the last laugh then.

mjhelto@lemm.ee on 18 May 2024 11:07 collapse

The only way he could ruin porn sites was if the site’s content were replaced with only videos of Elon gyrating his hips to Eye of the Tiger, while wearing one of those Borat bathing suits, never breaking eye contact with the camera.

ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works on 19 May 2024 14:33 next collapse

What do you mean ruin? I see that as an absolute win

SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca on 19 May 2024 14:49 next collapse

That’s my fetish tho. Don’t kink shame!

LittleBorat2@lemmy.ml on 20 May 2024 06:38 collapse

Much simpler: His picture from the thumbnail of this post is always going to be next to the pornhub logo and his eyes are going to follow your mouse cursor.

SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 19:48 next collapse

Ah yes, the everything-falling-apart-app

Plume@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 17 May 2024 19:51 next collapse

I’ll give him credit on this: It’s not dead yet. I’m genuinely surprised about that.

BearOfaTime@lemm.ee on 18 May 2024 14:24 next collapse

He’s doing his level best to kill it.

puppy@lemmy.world on 18 May 2024 14:25 collapse

Not for lack of trying from his part.

KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 19:52 next collapse

THIS IS AN X-PARROT!

dhork@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 21:21 collapse

The Twitter bird isnt dead, it’s just pining for the fjords

[deleted] on 17 May 2024 21:58 collapse

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efstajas@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 20:08 next collapse

Pretty funny that it took that long. Expertly executed rebrand.

pyre@lemmy.world on 18 May 2024 09:12 collapse

do you mean Xpertly Xecuted

shotgun_crab@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 20:35 next collapse

Google X videos for more info

snownyte@kbin.social on 17 May 2024 23:02 next collapse

I don't care, that sycophant can fuck himself.

Still Twitter to me.

Delusional@lemmy.world on 17 May 2024 23:05 next collapse

When the business fails and is eventually sold again, it will be changed back to Twitter.

Then again perhaps he won’t ever sell it unless he goes completely broke. Just prolonging the damage he does to society as long as he possibly can.

snownyte@kbin.social on 18 May 2024 00:11 collapse

If he's spent $44 Billion on it, you can rest assure he's not letting it go that easily unless he sees more than half of that come back from a buyer. And the only way he'll see that money is if Apple or Microsoft will bother with it, which they won't.

nyar@lemmy.world on 18 May 2024 04:21 collapse

It wasn’t his money.

null@slrpnk.net on 18 May 2024 08:27 collapse

Sycophant?

starman2112@sh.itjust.works on 18 May 2024 01:58 next collapse

Imagine spending 40 billion dollars on one of the most recognizable brands in history, so deeply embedded in the public consciousness that any other company would throw virgins into a volcano for a chance at that level of recognition, just to replace all of that branding with your own little name that everyone has been telling you sounds stupid for the last 25 years

CitizenKong@lemmy.world on 18 May 2024 07:43 next collapse

Welcome to the mind of a narcissist.

JustZ@lemmy.world on 18 May 2024 09:01 next collapse

Dude thinks the cyber truck is cool, and not the dumbest fucking vehicle ever.

pyre@lemmy.world on 18 May 2024 09:06 collapse

i think that gives him too much credit. he’s just fucking dumb and bad at everything. he failed upwards so long because he wasn’t too visible in the public eye. now he’s terminally online and constantly embarrassing himself and his companies.

CitizenKong@lemmy.world on 18 May 2024 09:21 collapse

Yes, because that’s what happens when a narcissist has way too much money. A person capable of self-reflection would realize that it’s much easier and safer to trust people around you that know more about their respective areas of expertise. That’s what good leaders do, they delegate. Musk is incapable of that. The companies he owns are not yet bankrupt despite, not because, of him.

macrocephalic@lemmy.world on 18 May 2024 08:34 next collapse

It’s so much so that every news article that quotes it still says “X, formerly Twitter”.

UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev on 18 May 2024 09:11 next collapse

That’s because X means absolutely nothing. It’s a letter commonly used to fill in blanks. It’s an awful name for any company/brand.

Cybermonk_Taiji@r.nf on 18 May 2024 09:42 collapse

Remember that “brand X” is the lesser brand that advertising uses when they can’t directly name their competitors. Brand X is inherently the cheap crap no name brand.

BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org on 18 May 2024 10:06 next collapse

Love that Joker

gregorum@lemm.ee on 19 May 2024 18:59 collapse

Xsssss

hispeedzintarwebz@infosec.pub on 21 May 2024 02:20 collapse

It’s also a pretty boss jazz fusion band co-founded by drummer Phil Collins

youtu.be/vo7mYqaMKXA?si=QqOYm1GH4lelZpMj

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TheBlackLounge@lemm.ee on 18 May 2024 10:31 collapse

I’ve seen and prefer “Twitter, now X”.

flying_sheep@lemmy.ml on 18 May 2024 14:17 collapse

Twitter (now “X”)

erwan@lemmy.ml on 18 May 2024 13:47 next collapse

Yes, I mean how many companies get their brand turned into a verb?

etruscan@lemmy.ca on 18 May 2024 14:14 collapse

It’s like someone buying Kleenex and going “Nope, it’s called K now.”

enleeten@discuss.online on 19 May 2024 14:55 next collapse

Elon: “Need some Ks, mate”

starman2112@sh.itjust.works on 19 May 2024 19:52 collapse

At least K has something to do with Kleenex. It’s more like buying Coca-Cola and changing it to J

Beetlejuice001@lemmy.wtf on 19 May 2024 19:20 collapse

IMHO it was more about preventing more social justice movements akin to #metoo

HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world on 18 May 2024 02:13 next collapse

What a pitiful community this is.

Stop posting about Twitter

this isnt relevant to technology

JoeyHarrington@lemmy.ca on 18 May 2024 05:35 collapse

Is this some type of advanced haiku

HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world on 18 May 2024 05:41 collapse

On technology

Twitter trash served yet again

A protest rageku

HawlSera@lemm.ee on 18 May 2024 06:06 next collapse

Now how’s Robotnik supposed to tell us if Shadow pissed on his wife without twitter.com

Muffi@programming.dev on 18 May 2024 07:50 collapse

He’ll do it on truth social.

RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world on 18 May 2024 06:37 next collapse

So it’s available?

jayandp@sh.itjust.works on 18 May 2024 15:26 next collapse

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FenrirIII@lemmy.world on 18 May 2024 15:35 collapse

Doubtful. It will probably just redirect

RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world on 18 May 2024 16:41 collapse

He was dumb enough to let X expire, maybe he’ll do the same thing here.

cmrn@lemmy.world on 18 May 2024 07:16 next collapse

The thing that makes me most sad is that the old Twitter is genuinely why I have the career and connections I do today. Now I can’t even stand opening the site.

TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world on 19 May 2024 14:58 collapse

I feel incredibly bad for small creators that still rely on it for an audience and can’t simply afford to market themselves without it.

2kool4idkwhat@lemdro.id on 18 May 2024 19:00 next collapse

I heard that he also moved the CDN for user-uploaded videos to xvideos.com

OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca on 19 May 2024 16:05 collapse

Not all of them. The cute ones are on xhamster.com

model_tar_gz@lemmy.world on 19 May 2024 20:10 collapse

His newest social media venture is focused on a niche of extreme exploration, named the Xtreme Network for Xtraordinary Xploration. You can find it at xnxx.com.

NutWrench@lemmy.world on 19 May 2024 15:33 next collapse

Elmo thinks the “X” makes it “extra cool.”

0nekoneko7@lemmy.world on 20 May 2024 09:02 next collapse

This dude is high.

Resol@lemmy.world on 20 May 2024 21:57 collapse

eXtremely egregious.