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But of a tangent, but: every time I see a link to an X post, I’m finding it increasingly weird that the Twitter -> X rename happened with a big splash some time ago now, but the actual x.com domain is still redirecting to twitter.com rather than the other way around.

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I'm surprised to see so many people and newspapers humouring Musk and obeying his name change when many pages on twitter.com still call it twitter.

It's still Twitter. There's no need to call it X unless you want to want to do free advertising for Musk's name change.

I see a lot of ExTwitter, so essentially the same thing.

Changing the name to X was just a bad idea.

I just call it "Formerly Twitter"

He still calls it Twitter. He kept saying it during that interview last week.

“Twitter (currently known as X)”

Most media I've seen says "posted to X (formerly Twitter)". So they still feel that the brand is not strong enough to not explain what it used to be.

I’m not so sure. Time marches on. There was a time in Toronto when everyone called it the Skydome and said it always would be.

Nowadays kids only know it as the Rogers Centre and may have only heard Skydome from their parents. If X/Twitter is still around in 10 years (I’m pretty 50/50 on those odds) then I think it’ll be known officially and colloquially as X, not Twitter.

I use "Twitter/X" because if you just say "X" no one knows what the heck you are talking about.

It's simple professionalism. X is its name. Quite disheartening to constantly see the pull towards unprofessionalism just because the target is an other. Your own integrity should be pulling you to represent yourself correctly. It should have nothing to do with your external feelings towards the thing. And especially have nothing to do with your desire to hurt something.

Elon's still calling it twitter. Is that unprofessional, and othering?

Maybe the company is called X now, but the product is still at twitter.com, and calls itself that on many of its pages. There's nothing unprofessional about sticking to the name the product identifies itself by, and I think that would be a lot more professional for a news organisation than leading the way for a name change. That's not their job.

Xwitter.

What the hell does it have to do with musk? If a corporation changes its name, journalists usually use the new name. Especially for big corporations. Do you want them to not use the new (very stupid) name, just to... own the musk?

Companies usually do the name change correctly.. This is more like the artist who should always have been referred to as Prince. Telling people about the other name isn't an updated reference it is a lost reference.

probably lacking some engineers to make sure all the CORS rules etc are updated. :D

How many ways can things can go hilariously wrong if they try to properly switch it over to x.com?

Until then calling it "twitter dot com" is still accurate.

Despite all the billionaire meta-craze, people still use Google, Facebook and Twitter.

I don’t think this is a good comparison. For Google and Facebook, that’s still what the products are called.

Their goals are all the same. Google and Facebook did it right, Elon did it wrong.

The companies grew larger than their flagship product, so they created a new umbrella brand for the company to continue expanding with new products with their own identities.

Rather than throw out the decades of brand recognition and destroy the identity of their flagship product in order to make it serve as an umbrella for video calls or banking or whatever else is crammed into X.

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