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And they still haven't changed the primary app domain to x.com. Such a joke. It will probably never happen due to the engineering complexities of such a switch
by gbenzzz 3y ago
And they still haven't changed the primary app domain to x.com. Such a joke. It will probably never happen due to the engineering complexities of such a switch with just a barebones engineering team and loss of institutional knowledge over the last year.
- paulette449 3y agoThe rebranding was an incredibly dumb decision. I have never seen it referred in the wider world to anything other than "X (formerly known as Twitter)".
- ianburrell 3y agoWe really should be calling ex-Twitter.
- qgin 3y agoX is an un-ownable name/word. It's the 2023 version of the artist formerly known as Prince.
- xenospn 3y agoAt least the artist formerly known as Prince continued providing value until the day he died. With Twitter, that value is long gone.
- rsynnott 3y agoAlso he had the decency to make up his own symbols (sent to newspapers on a floppy disk!) rather than just using the X11 logo for some reason.
- al_borland 3y agoIt reminds of when Prince changed his name to a symbol. He eventually gave up on the symbol, it just didn’t work. “X” is too generic a name and doesn’t work.
- jbverschoor 3y agoThey did, but it was changed back
- _3u10 3y agoIt doesn't take much, just a rewrite rule on a frontend proxy. The nice thing about barebones engineering teams is you get barebones solutions. "Turns out it doesn't actually require that many people to run the site" - Elon Musk.
- FloNeu 3y agoRofl - I guess that’s why the value is down 75% numbnut. Seems like only having some bare bone it staff isn’t what you really need to run a social media site. I love Elon musk quotes - everytime you read one it hasn’t aged well, just like he was just some dumb idiot that feel in a pot of gold (bought with daddy’s blood diamonds)