Matthew GarrettApr 9, 2024
Twitter just doing a "redirect links in tweets that go to x.com to twitter.com instead but accidentally do so for all domains that end x.com like eg spacex.com going to spacetwitter.com" is not absolutely the funniest thing I could imagine but it's high up there
Show threadJorgeApr 9, 2024
@mjg59 @vmstan this is a level of a incompetence so bad that I can only imagine Elon coded it himself.
Show thread-> @haileys.questApr 9, 2024
@herko @mjg59 @vmstan Does he know how to code, though?
Show threadJorgeApr 9, 2024

@blake @mjg59 @vmstan he used to, some, at some point, didn’t he?

This has all the hallmarks of upper management saying “how hard could it be?!”

Show threadMichael StancliftApr 9, 2024
@herko @blake @mjg59 it doesn't even really make a lot of sense to me what/why they'd do this if x.com is the new domain, why would they still want to send people the other way?
Show threadfdrApr 10, 2024
@vmstan @herko @blake @mjg59 my explanation is that because the twitter domain is hardcoded in a lot of places in Twitter codebase and there is nobody left able to properly fix it
Show threadmaya @ home
@herko @blake @vmstan @mjg59 @fdr yeah, i believe that such large infra as twitter is. It would break big time if someone changed the url. Even if there was a team, you usually dont touch this kind of stuff. Redeployment would be a huge pita
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