X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs

https://mashable.com/article/twitter-dot-com-posts-change-to-x-dot-com-ios

by williamsmj • 2 years ago

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terr-dav• 2 years ago

Here are my two possible explanations for this:

1) Twitter's system for implementing changes is woefully inadequate, and the person entrusted with making this change is hilariously naive.

2) This was a 200 iq way to get people talking about the topic again.

I'm inclined to believe option 1 is closer to the truth.

meepmorp• 2 years ago

Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.

ne0n_cowb0y_13• 2 years ago

3) Some executive blindly decreed this to be done by <date>, so it was done.

rsynnott2• 2 years ago

And by 'some executive' we mean, y'know, that one.

tamimio• 2 years ago

It’s more like the people who knew the internal system and understood that it would break with those changes were fired. So, whoever made that change probably thought changing a few values would be sufficient without proper research. I doubt it was documented, since it has never been done before or even expected to be done. And of course, they wanted to impress Elon by getting ‘shit’ done quickly!!

CmdrLoskene• 2 years ago

no doubt implemented by a galaxy brained dev working in goblin mode

rsynnott2• 2 years ago

The Ministry of Truth just can't get the staff these days...

(Beyond the botched implementation, it's extremely funny that they felt the need to do this in the first place! The Unwebsite.)

X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs

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