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It took some time, however Twitter.com is formally lifeless.
The rollout for X, Elon Musk’s model of the social media platform often called Twitter, was a sizzling ass mess. Logging onto Twitter.com nonetheless labored, and sharing tweets on web sites didn’t work until you modified the x within the URL to Twitter (that also is the case.).
Immediately, many desktop Twitter customers have been stunned to see that typing Twitter.com now redirects them to Elon Musk’s X.
Together with the redirect, a message on the backside of the webpage says, “We’re letting you recognize that we’re altering our URL, however your privateness and information safety settings stay the identical.”
The area transition from Twitter to now X was a bizarre one. Virtually all the things, just like the platform’s official account, cellular apps, and ineffective premium accounts, was below the brand new X branding, whereas Twitter.com nonetheless labored.
In fact, though Elon Musk remains to be turning X into the “all the things app” he has envisioned, customers on X are sticking by the unique title and telling Musk, “We’re nonetheless gonna name it Twitter.”
The platform, previously often called Twitter, has seen higher days. Bots reside in individuals’s mentions, porn is throughout timelines, and there are method too many Cheech and Chong edible adverts.
Nonetheless, as our favourite tech reviewer, Marques Brownlee, stated in a submit, it’s “nonetheless Twitter.”
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