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.
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…
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.
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.
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”…
What do you even call posts on X.com? Twitter had tweets. X has… What?
Twitter as a name was pretty much perfect. It explained the entire platform in a word. Musk thinks he can turn it into a WeChat for the English speaking world and that’s just not going to happen.
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.
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
He's been doing X shit forever. He had a comany in 1999 that merged with PayPal. Then he has SpaceX. Dude is obsessed with that letter for whatever reason like he wants to be known for it, but I'll only recognize David X. Cohen, co-creator of Futurama, as the true purveyor of the letter X.
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!
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.
Right, the head twit, the one who “doesn’t need” to ever consult with domain experts from his own companies, because he “knows” he’s right about everything anyway…
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.
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