On Monday, it appears X attempted to encourage users to cease referring to it as Twitter and instead adopt the name X. Some users began noticing that posts viewed via X for iOS were changing any references of “Twitter.com” to “X.com” automatically.

If a user typed in “Twitter.com,” they would see “Twitter.com” as they typed it before hitting “Post.” But, after submitting, the platform would show “X.com” in its place on the X for iOS app, without the user’s permission, for everyone viewing the post.

And shortly after this revelation, it became clear that there was another big issue: X was changing anything ending in “Twitter.com” to “X.com.”

  • sincle354@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    Some poor mfer’s shitty regex just got put on blast at a Twitter emergency software dev meeting.

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      7 months ago

      Some poor mfer’s shitty regex just got put on blast

      Oh fuck, oh fuck, oh fuck

      at a Twitter emergency software dev meeting.

      Oh thank goodness!!!

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      7 months ago

      I can’t imagine how bad things must be for amateurish mistakes like that to have gotten through to the actual app.