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Matthew GarrettTwitter 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
Jorge
-> @haileys.quest
Michael Stanclift
๐ก๐๐๐บ๐๐๐๐บ๐ ๐ฐ๐๐๐๐ฑ@vmstan @herko @blake @mjg59
Cos they never bothered doing the job properly first time around either
Cos they never bothered doing the job properly first time around either
Reeter@SmartmanApps @vmstan @herko @blake @mjg59
Hey, if you plan to work in a quick and dirty mode, it has to be dirty at the end, as dirty as possible to show the world that you are disrupting everything ๐
Hey, if you plan to work in a quick and dirty mode, it has to be dirty at the end, as dirty as possible to show the world that you are disrupting everything ๐
screambiogenesisI could be wrong, but I believe it's the other way around. My understanding:
For vanity, tweets with links to 'twitter.com/blahblahblah' are visually edited to show 'x.com/blahblahblah', but the backend still sends the user to the original twitter URL.
So someone could potentially link to a malicious site hosted on 'netflitwitter.com' or something, and the filter would make the link look like 'netflix.com' while still directing the user to the malicious site.
Eric Stein ๏ฟฝ@screambiogenesis @vmstan @herko @blake @mjg59 you're right. But spacetwitter.com would have been a valid way to phish people who thought they were going to spacex.com
#/usr/sbin/rtheren@screambiogenesis @vmstan @herko @blake @mjg59 I think that's how it works. Anyway, check out my new page twitterhamster.com :P
fdr
maya @ home
TerraGloba 
@vmstan @herko @blake @mjg59
Wasn't it cosmetic? At least, that's how I understood it.
The UI basically did `sed 's/twitter\.com$/x.com/g'` showing e.g. fedex[.]com as link preview while the link actually went to fedetwitter[.]com.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/04/twitters-clumsy-pivot-to-x-com-is-a-gift-to-phishers/
Oliver SchafeldHe doesn't need to code โ He groks.
Play dramatic jingle: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=rxHmI9F3voo
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Dramatic V of Doom (21910A)
Everybody wants to be like that dramatic prarie dog on YouTube. The Viacom V of Doom is no exception. Video NO. 21910A
Steffen Christensen
Martin Vermeer FCD@mjg59 Like the British think-of-the-children filter quite a while ago that made Sussex, Essex and Middlesex and such unreachable.
Space Hobo
Ian Douglas Scott@mjg59 It seems a little odd they're still using twitter.com as their primary domain.
You have to imagine multiple teams at the company have spent the past half year trying to figure out how to ensure all their infrastructure won't explode if they started redirecting twitter.com to x.com rather than the reverse.
Jo Momma@mjg59 regex can be challenging for beginners
Julio J. ๐ฒ
Lilith Ashley Nyx Arson 
Gabriel Adrian Samfira
SpaceLifeFormApparently, regex is hard. /s
Seppo Helavaregetwitter
Karl Stanley@mjg59 itโs wild to me how comically bad they are at basic things.
katch wreck@mjg59 "spacetwitter" does have a ring to it... ๐
Shoq@mjg59 Elmo has reversed himself on many things Any time now, I expect a rebrand. Heโll announce that โX.com is now Twitter.com, powered by brand X.โ Wait for it.
Jesse Karmani@mjg59 wait, when did this happen? I'm trying to find references/screenshots and coming up blank. I'd love a laugh this afternoon ๐
@mjg59 lol amazing ๐
stevenray@mjg59 who is he hiring over there these days ๐
PB Livin'@stevenray @mjg59 I don't think it's the staff that's the problem...
@wh0sthatd0g @mjg59 yes, though if Musk is doing any programming weโre all doomed.
Mario@stevenray @mjg59 possibly he has a few employee from chat gpt......god help us ๐ฅ
Steamroller Willie (Cotton ๐ฌ)@mjg59 I genuinely hope this was the result of a malicious compliance type of situation. Only to know that not even the folks working there want it to survive
Nire Bryce
รยก|| Evenson@mjg59 They probably set it up to redirect *.x.com
UsernameSwift 
I love that he fired so many people that nobody there knows how to write a regex
Joe Cooper ๐บ๐ฆ ๐@mjg59 nobody who could easily get another job is left. All that remains are devs willing to put up with a tremendous amount of crap to work on a product that will inevitably get worse over time because the boss decrees it.
Clot@mjg59 is this for real? Lol
Steven Bodzin@mjg59 I just posted a link to https://www.twentyessex.com/ and it was fine
and then deleted the post because i don't post there anymore
James Bartlett 
@guacamayan
It's the other way around. You have to post something that ends with "twitter.com", like "netflitwitter.com"
It's the other way around. You have to post something that ends with "twitter.com", like "netflitwitter.com"
Hobson Lane
Rob Bos@mjg59 Has it been fixed yet? You'd think that'd just be a ten second rewrite of nginx rules. Or whatever.
James ๐ฆ #FBPE 
groxx@mjg59 is this a thing that happened, or just that it'd be hilarious if so? I can't find any mentions of it, but I would absolutely laugh my ass off
skry
Pseudo NymWait, they did what the what now?
Substring match on the end?
Bwahahaha... Oh, you are serious.
@pseudonym @mjg59 @selenalarson When you drive off all the programmers and all you have left is lemons, go ahead and make yourself some lemonade.
OldTurk๐ฝFocus: #FreePeltier@mjg59 I canโt believe they even messed up his own company!
draNgNon@mjg59 regex, how does it work
รngel@mjg59 xxxx.com --> xxxtwitter.com
Alexander Knochel@mjg59 I though April 1st only comes once a year