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In the GIF, they display that the tool is available under twitter.com/write (which, obviously wouldn't be public yet unless I was invited to participate, which
by capableweb 4y ago
In the GIF, they display that the tool is available under twitter.com/write (which, obviously wouldn't be public yet unless I was invited to participate, which I wasn't). If you go there now, there is a Twitter account there already (a private "Writers Group"). Will that Twitter account disappear now with this change?
- simonlc 4y agoSame thing for some of the other links, which they do twitter.com/i/bookmarks for example, instead of twitter.com/bookmarks. I know this because at one point it was broken in the UI and one of the side links went to a profile instead.
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- omoikane 4y agoThis could have been avoided if twitter had distinct URL schemes for user accounts versus site functions (like how mastodon has /@user versus /path), or it could have been avoided if they reserved enough words early on to avoid this collision. Now I wonder how they would reclaim the paths that were parked by early users. Pay these users to rename their accounts, perhaps?
- zorr 4y agoWhy would they pay users for this? They can just force a rename and take the path if they need it. Their house, their rules.
- twic 4y agoI've lost track of how many times i've loaded this guy's profile by mistake: https://twitter.com/advanced_search https://twitter.com/advanced_search