On Whatever I'm talking about the name change of Twitter to X, what it means to me and others, and why I'm going to be on that site much less from now on.

(Also it means Mastodon will be a beneficiary, as probably a lot of things that would previously had been tweets will now become toots. Although I will have to remember to put a hashtag on the political stuff, I sometimes forget that)

https://whatever.scalzi.com/2023/07/24/preparing-my-x-it/

Preparing My X-it

Overnight, not unlike an NFL owner silently absconding with a whole football team to move it to a new town, Elon Musk decided to change the name of Twitter to “X,” which, for those of y…

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@scalzi I just checked and x.com now redirects to twitter.
@alan @scalzi did you check both http *and* https?
@joncruz @scalzi Not until now.
@alan @scalzi yeah, initial reports were that they resolved differently. Fun, huh?
@alan @scalzi I am only a lowly tech geek, but shouldn’t the redirect be in the other direction?
@morfydd @scalzi Haha no, this is the Elon way. He does things the wrong way because he can only learn new things the hard way.