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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address

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RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Elon Musk is retiring the last vestige of Twitter -- the twitter.com web address -- as the social network has fully moved over to x.com.
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  • shotgun_crab@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Google X videos for more info

  • cmrn@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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.

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    This dude is high.

  • KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world
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    THIS IS AN X-PARROT!

    • dhork@lemmy.world
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      The Twitter bird isnt dead, it’s just pining for the fjords

  • Luna@lemdro.id
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    I heard that he also moved the CDN for user-uploaded videos to xvideos.com

    • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca
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      Not all of them. The cute ones are on xhamster.com

      • model_tar_gz@lemmy.world
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        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.

  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
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    So it’s available?

    • jayandp@sh.itjust.works
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    • FenrirIII@lemmy.world
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      Doubtful. It will probably just redirect

      • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
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        He was dumb enough to let X expire, maybe he’ll do the same thing here.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.world
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    Elmo thinks the “X” makes it “extra cool.”

  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.world
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    …and breaks it on privacy-preserving browsers

    win-win I guess

  • TherouxSonfeir@lemm.ee
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    Still gonna squat on to the domain though.

    • Petter1@lemm.ee
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      I don’t think they sell those domains

    • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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      I see that as a good thing. Prevents it rising from the grave.

      • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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        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
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          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
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        Please think of the poor malware developers.

      • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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        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
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          Nah, just grab the domain and redirect it to X. Watch him explode.

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            that’s what it does now

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    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

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

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

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          Twitter (now “X”)

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        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.

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          Removed by mod

          • hispeedzintarwebz@infosec.pub
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            It’s also a pretty boss jazz fusion band co-founded by drummer Phil Collins

            https://youtu.be/vo7mYqaMKXA?si=QqOYm1GH4lelZpMj

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              Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

              https://piped.video/vo7mYqaMKXA?si=QqOYm1GH4lelZpMj

              Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

              I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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            Love that Joker

    • CitizenKong@lemmy.world
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      Welcome to the mind of a narcissist.

      • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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        Dude thinks the cyber truck is cool, and not the dumbest fucking vehicle ever.

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        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.

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          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.

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

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

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          Elon: “Need some Ks, mate”

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

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          deleted by creator

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

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    Ah yes, the everything-falling-apart-app

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

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      Not for lack of trying from his part.

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      He’s doing his level best to kill it.

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

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      He’ll do it on truth social.

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

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

    Still Twitter to me.

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      Sycophant?

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      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.

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        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.

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          It wasn’t his money.

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