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Re: X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com?

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Post by sonicanatidae »

mcv wrote: post #127
jrmg wrote: post #103

But of a tangent, but: every time I see a link to an X post, I’m finding it increasingly weird that the Twitter -> X rename happened with a big splash some time ago now, but the actual x.com domain is still redirecting to twitter.com rather than the other way around.

I'm surprised to see so many people and newspapers humouring Musk and obeying his name change when many pages on twitter.com still call it twitter. It's still Twitter. There's no need to call it X unless you want to want to do free advertising for Musk's name change.

I see a lot of ExTwitter, so essentially the same thing.

Changing the name to X was just a bad idea.

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Post by yoyohello13 »

mcv wrote: post #127
jrmg wrote: post #103

But of a tangent, but: every time I see a link to an X post, I’m finding it increasingly weird that the Twitter -> X rename happened with a big splash some time ago now, but the actual x.com domain is still redirecting to twitter.com rather than the other way around.

I'm surprised to see so many people and newspapers humouring Musk and obeying his name change when many pages on twitter.com still call it twitter. It's still Twitter. There's no need to call it X unless you want to want to do free advertising for Musk's name change.

I just call it "Formerly Twitter"

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Post by dingnuts »

da_chicken wrote: post #91
FartyMcFarter wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It's more like "x.com" is the canonical name. It sounds like a porn website. I don't think most business owners would want this as their brand, but I guess Elon is special in this way as well.

Elon is special in a lot of ways. Twitter had one of the strongest brands. Not in social media, not in technology, just one of the strongest brands period . Do people realize how rare and difficult that is to do? That little blue bird was everywhere. Elon just gave it up. Flushed it away. Kind of like those advertising contracts.

not that I'm exactly hopeful or that I think this indicates wisdom in Elon's move, or that he will be successful, but it -would- be good to have a social media site that isn't advertising supported, so that the users aren't the product. Aren't we always on about that on this site?

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Post by swozey »

edgyquant wrote: post #109
swozey wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That they're going to make a ton of stupid company names and it's their company-name umbrella dad-joke used for tax and legal purposes? We didn't just all get the memo that that's the joke?

Or it could be that they are obviously a front for the alphabet agencies

lmao. I would love to have been a fly on the wall "We need a new company name!" "Alphabet!" "YES EXACTLY!"

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Post by kianryan »

matricaria wrote: post #117

How can one be too young to know Desmond Llewelyn?

I'm guessing under or around 30?

His last onscreen appearance was in "The World Is Not Enough" in 1999. So if you were born in the mid 90s, you probably missed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oK4aBWIWl8

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Post by Suppafly »

kristopolous wrote: post #8
henpa wrote: post #3

I remember around 1999 when I used to work for a big ISP and I ran a simple perl script that would "nslookup" all combination of 3 letters domains. It generated a huge list of available domains, but none that called my attention because all the good ones (not just random letters) seemed to be already registered. I would never thought that all those random 3 letter domains would sell for so much money many years later…

Being an obdurate domain squatter would have been a successful strategy. All the things I thought would have been too stupid to work seems to have been very profitable

I'm missed out on a bunch of profitable tech booms just by a combination of being lazy and by feeling that things like domain scalping are somewhat inherently immoral.

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Post by thih9 »

swozey wrote: post #134
edgyquant wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or it could be that they are obviously a front for the alphabet agencies

lmao. I would love to have been a fly on the wall "We need a new company name!" "Alphabet!" "YES EXACTLY!"

> In a 2018 talk, Schmidt disclosed that the original inspiration for the name came from the location of the then Google Hamburg office's street address: ABC-Straße.

From Wikipedia about alphabet Inc

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