Twitter modified its identify to “X” again in July of 2023. However whereas the location has taken the previous 10 months to slowly regulate to its new identify and brand, two issues have remained fixed: All of us nonetheless name it “Twitter,” and the location’s URL remains to be twitter.com.
It appears the occasions actually are a-changin’ although: As of right now, twitter.com is formally x.com. Elon Musk confirmed the transition in a publish (previously referred to as a “tweet”) on X (previously referred to as Twitter):
However whereas Musk says “All core methods at the moment are on X.com,” it does not look like the case for everybody. For instance, once I hearth up twitter.com out of pure, unwavering behavior, the location hundreds proper up with out redirecting. For me, it is nonetheless Twitter, even when in URL solely. (The X brand remains to be very a lot mounted to the highest of the web page, which I suppose is at the least higher than Doge.)
On the flip aspect, if I kind within the new x.com area, it hundreds up simply advantageous as nicely. It even makes an enormous deal about me visiting x.com itself, with a banner thanking me for trying out the brand new URL. It looks as if the location actually needs to encourage me to proceed visiting x.com fairly than twitter.com, though the latter ought to mechanically redirect to the previous.
I am positive as soon as X’s skeleton crew figures out pressure Twitter URLs to be X URLs, that will likely be that, till the location runs out of cash and folds. I, for one, assume typing x.com isn’t solely silly, it appears like I am about to go to a very completely different sort of web site—which, at this level, is perhaps true, contemplating the sorts of bots that plague X as of late.
Should you’re about as sick of X’s shit as I’m, there are many X-alternatives to take a look at. Perhaps I am going to see you there, however I am going to in all probability nonetheless be right here, too, helplessly typing twitter.com into my browser till the top of time.
