• ultratiem @lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 年前

        Your fiver profile said you could do this bro! Ok try now. Nope! Now? Bro. Ok hold up, lemme search Google right quick.

    • r00ty@kbin.life
      2·
      2 年前

      I thought there was a different redirect on ipv6 for a moment, maybe there was for a short time.

      x.com on ipv4 maps to 104.18.16.213 and ipv6 maps to 2606:4700::6812:10d5 and that right now is a cloudflare server with a 302 redirect to “https://.twitter.com” most importantly is, SSL doesn’t work on it. It fails with an ssl error on curl.

      So, yeah. Quite a funny mess up.

  • Vamanos@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 年前

    It’s an exceptionally rare thing — in life or in business — that you get a second chance to make another big impression," the chief tweeted. “Twitter made one massive impression and changed the way we communicate. Now, X will go further, transforming the global town square.”

    Yes yes. Indeed. I love referring to a company by a single letter. Think about all of the great SEO will come from this! Think about the great way this will unite us all!

  • instamat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 年前

    Oh god his obsession with X so awkward. We all had a thing (or things) that we are embarrassed to admit we liked as teens, but it seems like Elon never grew out of that phase.

    I can’t wait for this X.com thing to finally get destroyed by the zeitgeist

    • r00ty@kbin.life
      1·
      2 年前

      Godaddy AND cloudflare. twitter.com doesn’t use either, which coupled with the typo on the redirect makes this really feel like a very Musk initiated thing going on here.

      I bet he’s on the free tier of cloudflare too.

    • waigl@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 年前

      Not necessarily, more like GoDaddy was the domain swatter that was holding on to that domain until Musk decided to pay the ransom. We cannot tell from the screenshot what registrar he uses for that domain now.

      We can, however, tell from whois, and what do you know, it’s godaddy…

  • SJ0@lemmy.fbxl.netEnglish
    4·
    2 年前

    I think Musk is just living out his 90s/2000s edgelord fantasy. “I AM THE OWNER OF X. X IS EVERYTHING… TO THE XTREME!”

  • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 年前

    Who is this rebrand for? A lot of people have ignored the Elon mess and kept using Twitter because “Twitter is Twitter” but if he takes that away, and people have to say “I posted on X…” then I hope another wave of them will quit for good.

    • Drunemeton@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 年前

      Knowing what little I know of the boy, Elon probably wants to make everyone start saying, “I’m on X,” or “You can find me on X” as a puerile Ecstasy (MDMA) joke.

      Of course they’ll no longer “Tweet” but instead they’ll “Xcrete”…

  • zahel@cosmere.xyzEnglish
    2·
    2 年前

    lol

    Elon the “Tech bruh” left a period in front of twitter so the redirect is broken - lmfao you can’t make this shit up.

  • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 年前

    I’m so sad x.com wasn’t an xcom fansite already. Would’ve loved to see him fume over it not being available.

  • Brudder Aaron@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 年前

    Would this not be an advertisement nightmare (Not that Twitter isn’t already one) to try to change a recognized brand’s name to something completely different?

    Also lol Godaddy.com Motherfucker can afford to piss money and he chooses Godaddy.

    • yiliu@informis.landEnglish
      5·
      2 年前

      And on top of changing it:

      • ‘x’ isn’t searchable
      • It’s associated with a thousand things already…including porn
      • It sounds dated: as a culture, we went through an ‘x’ phase

      There’s just no sense in which this is a good idea…

  • jeffw@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 年前

    Just used the wayback machine and it looks like a few years ago it redirected to the Boring Company, so Elon has owned this for a while.

    Also, at one point, the website literally just had the letter X

  • waigl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 年前

    In fairness, DNS entries do get cached for a while (usually 24 hours), so you might have gotten a stale version of the resource record. It’s even entirely possible that whatever DNS resolver Musk uses did have the up to date version already while yours did not.

    Still, Twitter should double and triple checked that this works even from other resolvers before announcing it like this.

  • zahel@cosmere.xyzEnglish
    1·
    2 年前

    Replacing a notable, at this point ingrained part of modern internet culture, to the letter “X” LMAO. Elon just doing whatever to stay in the headlines.