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- yuekit1
Is there a reason why the brand is X but the domain is still Twitter?
- call elon and askpockets
- x.com takes you to twitter.comsarahfailin
- Yea but shouldn't it be the opposite, twitter.com takes you to x.com?yuekit
- shouldn't twitter.com take you to x.comdbloc
- I mean I'm not a billionaire tech CEO but that's what I would have doneyuekit
- I've had to change a company's name before; Brand-level redirects have tons of issues with existing links, especially with integrated services, etc.evilpeacock
- It's probably going from X to twitter because if it didn't some deep integrations might break, or security checks freak out when there's an extra "hop".evilpeacock
- Or it could literally just be someone didn't know any better.evilpeacock
- Did he buy x.com recently or he owned it for some time and just wanted to put it into use?drgs
- ^ X.com was the domain name associated with PayPal back in 1998 when Musk co-founded PayPal.Krassy
- ...he bough back the domain in 2017 for something crazy like $10millionKrassy
- @evilpeacock It's probably because Elon Musk demanded they change the site to X, people pointed out what you said and he insisted they do it anyway.yuekit
- @yuekit Exactly... It takes effort and time to correctly plan for a mass redirect of domain-based resources, usually well in advance of a target date.evilpeacock
- I think the twitter.com domain will be reduced to provide relay for connected services and things like twtdeck, users will be slowly redirected to x.com.sted