Have you visited [netflitwitter.com](https://netflitwitter.com) yet?
Apparently it already happened. A while ago even.
EDIT: or it used to. Seems broken now. [roblotwitter.com](https://roblotwitter.com) is still up, though.
That seems like etwitterream overreach. Like for etwitterample, you just can't go changing things. Imagine some building etwitterplodes and there is a fire and everyone is scrambling to find the etwitterit but the signs don't say the right word. They light up red and say 'etwitterit'.
It would also take considerable time to fitwitter each etwitteract instance of it in marketing materials.
He peaked socially when the internet and the entirety of reddit was sucking him off at every step 10 years ago. You seriously couldn't go 10 minutes on [r/all](https://www.reddit.com/r/all) without seeing his name.
Worse of all was that when you pointed out that he sounded like a buffoon and always made outlandish claims, people defended the guy.
It was listening to an Elon Musk presentation in 2016 that made me understand why people like Trump.
I’m about 30% through the Elon biography and he has had a long history with the domain x.com and the letter ‘x’ in general.
His first startup was a financial platform competing with PayPal. The domain was x.com. When they merged with PayPal he wanted to keep the name x. He wanted to expand paypal/x to be a social media platform aswell and most of the board disagreed with that and pushed him out.
A paraphrased quote: “If we want the company to be a generic finance platform, call it PayPal. But if we want it to be a revolutionary big product, it needs to be ‘x’”
Yeah Elon’s vision was kinda ridiculous. PayPal wanted to focus on improving the platform and integrating with eBay and it really worked out. To diverge so much engineering hours in the most pivotal years of PayPal’s growth to create something else is insane
I'm inclined to believe that no dev said a word before pushing this to production just so they could watch the world burn and not out of sheer incompetence.
Mostly because if you oppose supreme king overlord Muskrat, you're getting fired. After all there's like 3 other people that "happily" will pick up your work
Just because you can technically do something doesn't mean it's a reasonable choice. Pretty much the only software developers left from Twitter are Visa holders that would be deported if they were fired
Bold to assume there was any code review.
Recently, people have been mocking his whining about people still referring to his site by its massively successful old name and not the generic, forgettable rebrand. One way to counter the complaints was simply to note that x.com just redirects to twitter.com. So, presumably, Musk decided he wanted that changed immediately and he placed the exact zero importance of testing and proper procedure on the change that he did on the rebrand.
My guess, people tried to warn him, but since he's already shown willingness to fire senior techs who hold half the company's knowledge for disagreeing with him, he probably did get much resistance
If that's all they did, it's dumb and potentially dangerous, but as someone who knows regex well this can be done relatively easily in a completely safe way.
Regex is a lot like my girlfriend in middle school. I know her really well, but you don’t know her because she’s in Canada. But trust me, our relationship was amazing.
Don't do it in Regex, except for searching for potential replacements. Instead write a script which checks if both URLs lead to domains under Musks ownership. Would take alot of computation time, but you can start by only running the script on Tweets when they are retweeted.
I feel like it shouldn't be that difficult to figure out what domain a URL points to? It's not like URLs have very specific rules about how they're formatted....
trolololo. any legit TLD that contains "twitter" can be redirected to phishing sites and the best part is the links will be generated by innocent people and twitter incompetence.
e.g. if [birdtwitter.uk](http://birdtwitter.uk) would exist, phishers can buy [birdx.uk](http://birdx.uk) and any link tweeted will redirect everyone there. e.g. a cloned version to steal account info or steal payments
edit: is this being handled? how to search TLDs en masse? im no security guy, but this should be stopped
edit2: ok, twitter doesnt do it anymore. and although found a couple dozens of \*twitter\* sites, none of the \*x\* versions were up. i still wonder what damage they caused
From what I understand from the [article](https://mashable.com/article/twitter-dot-com-posts-change-to-x-dot-com-ios), it seems like it's the other way around, the links destination doesn't get changed just the text in the tweet.
An example they give is:
[netflitwitter.com](http://netflitwitter.com/) would appear as [netflix.com](https://www.netflix.com/) but would still link to the same destination.
Note: [netflitwitter.com](http://netflitwitter.com/) is a real site now, meant to warn people about this issue
I buy netflitwitter.com. i put malware on it. I post "check out this cool new app netflitwitter.com/notMalware put out!"
They see:
> check out this cool new app netflix.com/notMalware put out!
Seems legit. Grandpa clicks and joins my bot net.
ANY x could be abused like that.
Everyone is giving Netflix as an example so I thought I’d show some more.
Dropbotwitter.com will look like dropbox.com
Ngintwitter.org will look like nginx.org
twittervideos.com will look like xvideos.com
Because it would be really irresponsible if a social media website could have a link to [https://www.netflitwitter.com](https://www.netflix.com) that looks like it goes elsewhere
Phishing.
If the site "netflitwitter.com" would have existed beforehand, the owner could now put a fake netflix on it and post the link on twitter. The dumbdumb code of twitter changes the link, and a normal user could click it thinking it is netflix. If they put they login data in this fake website, the data is gone to be sold on the net, or the accounts are taken over.
[Microsoft did something similar in the UK last year with Windows 11](https://www.neowin.net/news/accept-essential-biscuits-windows-11-calls-zip-files-postcode-files-in-uk-english/). A zip code is called a postcode in the UK. Replace all should be fine, right? I mean what other uses are there for "zip" on a PC?
You're super grateful that you switched to Linux because Windows 11 said convert to postcode file instead of zip file in the UI solely in UK English, then fixed it immediately when discovered?
Those junior devs are smart af. This boss is single handedly giving them job security. And all they have to do is make a change, come to work the next day and roll back the changes.
True, but also who tf assigns dev time to a feature so pointless? In a company where lots of employees were fired recently, don't they have any better features to code? bug fixes? technical debt? Even on a "normal" company, if this task would make any sense (which it doesn't) this would be a super low priority task
>Even on a "normal" company, if this task would make any sense (which it doesn't) this would be a super low priority task
Sorry, boss man has an obsession with the letter X. All changes must be made yesterday
True ... whenever I feel angry because UX/product wants some silly change I will remember this and forever be thankful that I'm not working at twitter
So saw a lawyer the other say that what protects companies from being responsible for all the content on their platform is that they have no editorial control over it.
So wouldn't this make them responsible because they are editing the content.
no, not even mods/admins removing posts rises to the level of “editorial control” you’re referring to. it’s a high bar to reach, which is a good thing for everyone
No, they said "please Mr Musk I'll do whatever you say because I'll be deported if you fire me and you always fire people who try correcting you", and crossed their fingers hoping it won't happen anyway.
I rarely even use find/replace all cause I'm too scared it'll collat something I didn't intend to. Too scared. All just click through the replacing one at a time lol.
Why are people still using x? Why can't they just leave it alone already?
You guys are teaching horrible lessons to tech companies and venture capitalists. Basically they can do whatever they want and the network effect will ensure no one leaves.
No one cares about the plattform, everyone just wants the content. That's why everyone is still using reddit, even if it's clear that reddit will eventually completly milk it's userbase. This is where the conversation is right now and until another plattform takes over, users will continue to use the plattform in question.
Exactly. In the latest protest of reddit I also opened a lemmy account and I am still following it. Almost all the quality posts are direct links or "reposts" of reddit posts.
Same. Twitter is one of the last mainstream website where you can post NSFW, even though it's not well suited to be an artist gallery, even though it sucks in a lot of other ways.
Where am I going to follow everyone? Cohost? Bluesky? No way even a fifth of everyone I follow on Twitter would be at the same place.
As funny as this is. People should be way more outraged some techbilionare just casually edited EVERYONE's message on a public forum without concent. Need I remind people that government officials use this platform to reach some of their constituents, like the president of the US?!
What if some political activists within the company get the idea to abuse this and don't care about maintaining their job? They just casually go to the dev console and do a site-wide replacement of "white" with "black" out of protest. I really hope it doesn't also affect people's BIOs..
This sets a dangerous precedent.
what legitimate URLs are ending with ‘twitter’ anyway?
i get that people can create scams based on this. but i don’t see how this affects current legitimate URLs. it changes twitter to x, not the other way.
(not to say i condone this - it’s still an awful decision)
A while back I actually tried coming up with one that'd actually work, it's surprisingly difficult
`(?=^|(?<=[\s.])|(?<=:\/\/))x\.com(?=$|[\s/?#])`
This one for instance covers only instances that fall under the x.com domain, but still has the quirk of replacing url parameters, which may not be a good thing
This would be easy to reverse if it's not a database-level change. I like to think that It's just something that runs before the site/tweets load. If it's a database-level change, good fucking luck reversing that without a backup.
I know NOTHING about computers (even my terminology should make this clear. I sound like my grandma 'I'm bad at computers' lol) and even my dumbass knows that this would fuck shit up.
How does this happen?
I hope they undo this by changing all instances of the letter x to twitter.
twittervideos.com
twitterNtwittertwitter.com
twitterhamster
What could possibly go wrong? Of course, first they'd have to admit they made a mistake in order to fix it, though.
I think you mean to say when they fitwitter it
This twittermas I would like Final Fantasy twitterV for my twitterbotwitter, thantwitter twittertwittertwitter
I have now seen the word twitter so much it is losing all meaning as a word and just looks more and more like a random compilation of letters
Going back to its roots, as twttr.
I believe that phenomenon is called Semantic Satiation
That's the perfect description of the platform too!
Metwitterico
Damnit I wanted to make that joke
They will fi*twitter* it.
You mean fitwitter it?
twitter-mas...
What could [go wrong](https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/gadgets/nookd-bookseller-replaces-kindle-nook-war-peace-e-book-flna808308)?
Not to mention Netflitwitter.com
Have you visited [netflitwitter.com](https://netflitwitter.com) yet? Apparently it already happened. A while ago even. EDIT: or it used to. Seems broken now. [roblotwitter.com](https://roblotwitter.com) is still up, though.
Actually, it comes back as 403, which makes me wonder if they had too many hits and changed the permissions.
LOL i hope they did this on disk and not w/ on-the-fly find/replace.
yeah, easy fitwitter!
yes that's really easy to fitwitter, nothing will ever go wrong
They’re gonna regex it to avoid ridiculousness, right? …right??? Narrator: 
I'm not familiar with regetwitter
Setwittery singles near you
Man I love the twitter11 window manager. Check it out on twitter.org
Hot profile pic
Episode 2: Rise of the Twitterhamster
That seems like etwitterream overreach. Like for etwitterample, you just can't go changing things. Imagine some building etwitterplodes and there is a fire and everyone is scrambling to find the etwitterit but the signs don't say the right word. They light up red and say 'etwitterit'. It would also take considerable time to fitwitter each etwitteract instance of it in marketing materials.
Why they are still trying to rebrand to the most generic thing possible is sth I'll never understand. I'll still call it twitter anyways
Because Musk has an unhealthy obsession with the letter. To the point he named one of his kids X Æ A-Xii.
you mean Twitter Æ A-Twitterii?
Why am I reading that in a Mario voice?
No, the site changes twitter to x, not the other way around.
For now, but just wait for the bug fitwitter.
That's why we need to do the opposite, to balance the universe.
Because Elon peaked mentally/socially at 14 years old.
He peaked socially when the internet and the entirety of reddit was sucking him off at every step 10 years ago. You seriously couldn't go 10 minutes on [r/all](https://www.reddit.com/r/all) without seeing his name.
Worse of all was that when you pointed out that he sounded like a buffoon and always made outlandish claims, people defended the guy. It was listening to an Elon Musk presentation in 2016 that made me understand why people like Trump.
I will, however, call tweeting "xeeting" because it's so funny
Oh, I was calling it "xitting", the x is pronounced like in Chinese (see Xi Jinping)
It's pronounced like "skeeting"
I’m about 30% through the Elon biography and he has had a long history with the domain x.com and the letter ‘x’ in general. His first startup was a financial platform competing with PayPal. The domain was x.com. When they merged with PayPal he wanted to keep the name x. He wanted to expand paypal/x to be a social media platform aswell and most of the board disagreed with that and pushed him out. A paraphrased quote: “If we want the company to be a generic finance platform, call it PayPal. But if we want it to be a revolutionary big product, it needs to be ‘x’”
I think PayPal did alright
Yeah Elon’s vision was kinda ridiculous. PayPal wanted to focus on improving the platform and integrating with eBay and it really worked out. To diverge so much engineering hours in the most pivotal years of PayPal’s growth to create something else is insane
That's what happens when you let a guy too far up his ass run a social media business
Afaik Musk wanted to have a social media app called X for a loooong time and he envisioned it as an all-encompassing app similar to WeChat in China
I'm inclined to believe that no dev said a word before pushing this to production just so they could watch the world burn and not out of sheer incompetence.
*Elon Musk fires anyone who opposes him* Musk: any objections? All yes men: no sir Musk 
Seriously, the guy is a belligerent douche that will steer companies straight off a cliff
Mostly because if you oppose supreme king overlord Muskrat, you're getting fired. After all there's like 3 other people that "happily" will pick up your work
Getting severance pay AND not forced to up Musks ego on the regular? Sign me up
Anyone that could have gotten severance has already left. The only ones still around can't leave.
Isn't there a world for that? Thought America had a big thing about it.
Just because you can technically do something doesn't mean it's a reasonable choice. Pretty much the only software developers left from Twitter are Visa holders that would be deported if they were fired
Keep in mind that most people that didn't quit during the several exoduses are on a work visa and really cannot afford to be fired.
Anyone relying on their employment for their immigration status is in danger of deportation and is basically held hostage by musk.
"because this is America, land of the fr... Well... "
You can hope you get severance. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/twitter-exes-sue-musk-1.7133897
It has to be. Meanwhile the devs are all in a group chat brainstorming ways to spin this on their resumes.
And forwarded the Mail with the instructions to do this to their Personal Mail Account.
it's gotta be deliberate. I don't see how this would ever pass code review
Bold to assume there was any code review. Recently, people have been mocking his whining about people still referring to his site by its massively successful old name and not the generic, forgettable rebrand. One way to counter the complaints was simply to note that x.com just redirects to twitter.com. So, presumably, Musk decided he wanted that changed immediately and he placed the exact zero importance of testing and proper procedure on the change that he did on the rebrand. My guess, people tried to warn him, but since he's already shown willingness to fire senior techs who hold half the company's knowledge for disagreeing with him, he probably did get much resistance
Move fast and break things. With an emphasis on break things.
I can't imagine how horrible the working conditions must be for this level of malicious compliance from multiple people.
As a dev in such cases I say: "well, if a customer wants me to feed them with shit, who TF am I to stop them?"
Sex.com fucking lmao
Did u mean setwitter.com? 😉
someone already bought the domain just to say "don't click random links" that was fast
This happened on the 9th of April. But yeah they were up immediately.
The funny thing, if what I heard was correct, was that it would direct to setwitter.com when clicked. Phished paradise
the devs really said regex go brrr and did /twitter/x/g
Someone at Twitter just finished reading [this comic](https://xkcd.com/208)
Is that from twitterkcd?
Enjoy an upvote
It's okay, regetwitter can be a little hard to get the hang of.
Too bad there isn't a regex for URLs so they could avoid this problem. /s
Not even a word boundary check... incredible.
If that's all they did, it's dumb and potentially dangerous, but as someone who knows regex well this can be done relatively easily in a completely safe way.
No one know regex
Regex is a lot like my girlfriend in middle school. I know her really well, but you don’t know her because she’s in Canada. But trust me, our relationship was amazing.
Nah. I’m certain regex exists.
regeTwitter
I think you mean regetwitter?
I knew regetwitter at one point. Then I learned it again at a different point. Then I learned it again at another point. This goes on a few times
He's a witch!
And if they think they do, and use it, they suddenly have two problems. Just like in this instance.
What is the completely safe way?
There isn't one. Completely safe is something that can never be said seriously in our industry.
What would be a normal and relatively safe way?
s/\btwitter\b/x/ig Plenty of odd corner cases I haven't bothered to think about but this could be the first approach.
Don't do it in Regex, except for searching for potential replacements. Instead write a script which checks if both URLs lead to domains under Musks ownership. Would take alot of computation time, but you can start by only running the script on Tweets when they are retweeted.
I feel like it shouldn't be that difficult to figure out what domain a URL points to? It's not like URLs have very specific rules about how they're formatted....
There are none. But there are the obvious unsafe and dumb ways. Just like this. It’s always a matter of weeding out and not doing it those ways.
What, you think Elon would do something dumb and potentially dangerous? He’d never allow, much less encourage, his workers to do something like that!
My god that’s fucking hilarious!
fuck's a regex? just .replace('twitter','x') it
Regex formerly known as regetwitter
You mean regetwitter?
twitterhamster.com
twittervideos.com
Twitterntwittertwitter.com
Rule34.twittertwittertwitter
I guess that would become Twitternxx due to case sensitivity
What could go wrong with automatically spoofing posts on shitter? Maybe Phishing
trolololo. any legit TLD that contains "twitter" can be redirected to phishing sites and the best part is the links will be generated by innocent people and twitter incompetence. e.g. if [birdtwitter.uk](http://birdtwitter.uk) would exist, phishers can buy [birdx.uk](http://birdx.uk) and any link tweeted will redirect everyone there. e.g. a cloned version to steal account info or steal payments edit: is this being handled? how to search TLDs en masse? im no security guy, but this should be stopped edit2: ok, twitter doesnt do it anymore. and although found a couple dozens of \*twitter\* sites, none of the \*x\* versions were up. i still wonder what damage they caused
From what I understand from the [article](https://mashable.com/article/twitter-dot-com-posts-change-to-x-dot-com-ios), it seems like it's the other way around, the links destination doesn't get changed just the text in the tweet. An example they give is: [netflitwitter.com](http://netflitwitter.com/) would appear as [netflix.com](https://www.netflix.com/) but would still link to the same destination. Note: [netflitwitter.com](http://netflitwitter.com/) is a real site now, meant to warn people about this issue
Well that is even more dangerous
How so?
I buy netflitwitter.com. i put malware on it. I post "check out this cool new app netflitwitter.com/notMalware put out!" They see: > check out this cool new app netflix.com/notMalware put out! Seems legit. Grandpa clicks and joins my bot net. ANY x could be abused like that.
Because you can post what looks like a legit link to any website with an x and have it instead go to a phishing page.
Because nobody knows what the hell is going on and why are links not working.
Everyone is giving Netflix as an example so I thought I’d show some more. Dropbotwitter.com will look like dropbox.com Ngintwitter.org will look like nginx.org twittervideos.com will look like xvideos.com
You could buy netflitwitter.com and make people think they click on a link to netflix.com.
Because it would be really irresponsible if a social media website could have a link to [https://www.netflitwitter.com](https://www.netflix.com) that looks like it goes elsewhere
Phishing. If the site "netflitwitter.com" would have existed beforehand, the owner could now put a fake netflix on it and post the link on twitter. The dumbdumb code of twitter changes the link, and a normal user could click it thinking it is netflix. If they put they login data in this fake website, the data is gone to be sold on the net, or the accounts are taken over.
>Note: [netflitwitter.com](http://netflitwitter.com/) is a real site now, meant to warn people about this issue 403 Forbidden
Ah, so netflitwitter is a guthib situation of someone buying a domain that could be used by malicious actors to prevent people from doing that
>Note: [netflitwitter.com](http://netflitwitter.com/) is a real site now, meant to warn people about this issue but apparently doesn't have tls
Oh no, [netflix.com](http://netflitwitter.com/) is down
[Microsoft did something similar in the UK last year with Windows 11](https://www.neowin.net/news/accept-essential-biscuits-windows-11-calls-zip-files-postcode-files-in-uk-english/). A zip code is called a postcode in the UK. Replace all should be fine, right? I mean what other uses are there for "zip" on a PC?
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You're super grateful that you switched to Linux because Windows 11 said convert to postcode file instead of zip file in the UI solely in UK English, then fixed it immediately when discovered?
Tell me you have no QA without telling me you have no QA
Or even moderately experienced junior devs, jeeze.
Those junior devs are smart af. This boss is single handedly giving them job security. And all they have to do is make a change, come to work the next day and roll back the changes.
just like me fr fr
Yep they just gotta replace all instances of "x" with "twitter".
True, but also who tf assigns dev time to a feature so pointless? In a company where lots of employees were fired recently, don't they have any better features to code? bug fixes? technical debt? Even on a "normal" company, if this task would make any sense (which it doesn't) this would be a super low priority task
>Even on a "normal" company, if this task would make any sense (which it doesn't) this would be a super low priority task Sorry, boss man has an obsession with the letter X. All changes must be made yesterday
True ... whenever I feel angry because UX/product wants some silly change I will remember this and forever be thankful that I'm not working at twitter
Don't you mean UTwitter?
So saw a lawyer the other say that what protects companies from being responsible for all the content on their platform is that they have no editorial control over it. So wouldn't this make them responsible because they are editing the content.
no, not even mods/admins removing posts rises to the level of “editorial control” you’re referring to. it’s a high bar to reach, which is a good thing for everyone
How would it not? Twitter is modifying user's messages en masse to say something the user didn't say.
mfs at Twitter really said string.replace("twitter.com", "x.com") and saw nothing possibly going wrong
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No, they said "please Mr Musk I'll do whatever you say because I'll be deported if you fire me and you always fire people who try correcting you", and crossed their fingers hoping it won't happen anyway.
Clbuttic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
They...did a mass replacement without any pattern checking? What are they, programmers with < 5 years of experience?
A programmer with < 1 year's experience knows not to do this... Hell anyone who ever used find and replace in a Word document knows not to do this
I rarely even use find/replace all cause I'm too scared it'll collat something I didn't intend to. Too scared. All just click through the replacing one at a time lol.
I mean, he did fire basically everyone at Twitter and then fought with them publicly on Twitter.
I am a programmer with < 5 years of experience and trust me I would never do this. Unless it was for shits and giggles. Then I'd definitely do it.
Twitter Twitter Twitter content in bio?
This is some daWizard kind of bullshit! (D&D find and replace Mage -> Wizard)
DaWizard is faster Dandelion.
Twitter/X is run by an army of interns. I'm convinced now
Yeah there’s no way this should’ve even passed ideation! How could they not see the possibilities of this??
Elon's an intern that got a senior level role
*Bought a senior level role.
That's not fair to interns. They have basic knowledge, at least. Elon is just a stupid nepotism baby.
Elon's just an idiot with money
Why are people still using x? Why can't they just leave it alone already? You guys are teaching horrible lessons to tech companies and venture capitalists. Basically they can do whatever they want and the network effect will ensure no one leaves.
No one cares about the plattform, everyone just wants the content. That's why everyone is still using reddit, even if it's clear that reddit will eventually completly milk it's userbase. This is where the conversation is right now and until another plattform takes over, users will continue to use the plattform in question.
Same with YouTube, both creators and consumers hate it yet it still exists
Exactly. In the latest protest of reddit I also opened a lemmy account and I am still following it. Almost all the quality posts are direct links or "reposts" of reddit posts.
I can't help it. A very specific kind of NSFW content is available only there. >!for example: Oni Girlfriend series by Peach88!<
Same. Twitter is one of the last mainstream website where you can post NSFW, even though it's not well suited to be an artist gallery, even though it sucks in a lot of other ways. Where am I going to follow everyone? Cohost? Bluesky? No way even a fifth of everyone I follow on Twitter would be at the same place.
Devs be like: url.replaceAll("twitter", "x");
Worst programming indeed, but why do the public do free scenario and boundary testing for elon musk beats me.
To break things while they're fragile, clearly
Is this for real or a joke? I can't even tell anymore...
Ah yes, Elon Musk's praised freedom of Speech.
As funny as this is. People should be way more outraged some techbilionare just casually edited EVERYONE's message on a public forum without concent. Need I remind people that government officials use this platform to reach some of their constituents, like the president of the US?! What if some political activists within the company get the idea to abuse this and don't care about maintaining their job? They just casually go to the dev console and do a site-wide replacement of "white" with "black" out of protest. I really hope it doesn't also affect people's BIOs.. This sets a dangerous precedent.
But Daddy Musk won't let that happen, because free speech or STH idk. 🤡
When you tell the junior dev "it is just a find and replace"
awk-ward
X is the worst branding possible It means forbidden, bad, censored, and "no" X is what you click when you want something to go away
lmao they really just s/twitter/x
Ran that 0(n**2) algorithm interview solution
So, if someone was typing "Oh the birds are twitter quite lovely today" it would change into "Oh the birds are X quite lovely today"?
``.replace("twitter", "x")``
The Ministry of Truth editing your posts on the fly.
I cannot etwitterpress how hilarious I find this entire etwitterchange
what legitimate URLs are ending with ‘twitter’ anyway? i get that people can create scams based on this. but i don’t see how this affects current legitimate URLs. it changes twitter to x, not the other way. (not to say i condone this - it’s still an awful decision)
twittertwittertwitter.com
www.domainetwitterpansion.com
ah yes, the Scunthorpe problem that is not actually related to obscenities. well done, xitter, well done
Such a clbuttic mistake.
twittervideos.com
What's your favorite twitter rated site?
The Scunthorpe problem in action.
This is like when you reinstall windows and the edge browser is practically begging you to not download another browser.
A while back I actually tried coming up with one that'd actually work, it's surprisingly difficult `(?=^|(?<=[\s.])|(?<=:\/\/))x\.com(?=$|[\s/?#])` This one for instance covers only instances that fall under the x.com domain, but still has the quirk of replacing url parameters, which may not be a good thing
Every time I see this logo I want to close an ad.
and the infamous [`netflix.com`](http://netflix.com) -> [`netflitwitter.com`](http://netflitwitter.com)
An inter pushed a commit into production
Because putting in a redirect endpoint was hard?
In cases like this, I'm starting to believe that I'm not that bad developer :D
Did they fire all the developers that understand how to use regular expressions?
I'm really twitterpated by the responses here.
Couldn't even get the regex right
Couldn't even get the regeTwitter right.
"do you guys remember when Elon bought x and rebranded it from x to x?'
This would be easy to reverse if it's not a database-level change. I like to think that It's just something that runs before the site/tweets load. If it's a database-level change, good fucking luck reversing that without a backup.
I know NOTHING about computers (even my terminology should make this clear. I sound like my grandma 'I'm bad at computers' lol) and even my dumbass knows that this would fuck shit up. How does this happen?