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Elon Musk's X botched an attempt to replace "twitter.com" links with "x.com"
- lamontcg 2y agoSmells like more of Elon's "lets do it the fastest, sloppiest way possible and see what breaks" philosophy.
- malfist 2y agoIt's almost like there's repercussions for laying off most of your engineering talent.
- ungreased0675 2y agoElon Musk himself pushed this software update?
- meepmorp 2y agoI think you're misreading the headline, which blames the problem on "Elon Musk's X," not the man himself.
- ungreased0675 2y agoDo you wonder why it was written that way? Most news articles about misfiring feature launches don’t include the owner of the company.
- quantified 2y agoConsidering that they had real security people before it went private, and it strongly reflects the owner's demands, it's going to be on the hardcore owner. However, everybody does know it's his by now.
- meepmorp 2y agoI think it's written that way as an aid readers in understanding the topic of the article. X is a tremendously stupid name and it's not guaranteed that people will immediately be able to identify it as the social-network-formerly-known-as-Twitter, so making the connection to Elon Musk helps people put the name in context.
- rsynnott 2y agoBecause if they just said “X” people would assume it was a copy-editing mistake. Truly terrible branding. Remember The Artist Formerly Known as Prince?
- RichardHesketh 2y agoJeebus. Makes me grateful the software in a Tesla car is (so far as I’ve been able to tell in 90k miles driven) so good.