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Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months ago

Elon Musk’s X botched an attempt to replace “twitter.com” links with “x.com”

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Elon Musk’s X botched an attempt to replace “twitter.com” links with “x.com”

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Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months ago

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Automatic text replacement let users spoof URLs ending in x, like netflix.com.

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This looks like an embarrassing mistake. If someone were to try to “tank” Twitter, it wouldn’t really make sense to do this on purpose.

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