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It’s amazing that not only did they fuck up the regex, but only changed how the link was displayed and not where it linked to. And somehow their org is fucked up enough that someone not only wrote this incompetent code but it went into production.

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Nope, why would someone register carfatwitter.com if that was the case?

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Are you serious?

As of April 8, 2024, the iOS Twitter (now X) client automatically replaces the text “twitter.com” in posts with “x.com” as part of its functionality. Therefore, for example, a URL that appears to be “netflix.com” will actually redirect to “netflitwitter.com” when clicked.

As another X user (@Arcticstar0) pointed out, “the actual link is unchanged. It’s just the text placeholder that appears different. So the link goes to a different url than it appears.”

It could work the way you’re describing with the same effect, but that’s not what’s being described.

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Just optics, I guess? Probably some urgent drug-induced decree from Elron. They still have tons of references to Twitter in various parts of the site. The transition to the ‘x’ domain (which yes, Musk has owned since 1999) was rushed, hasty, and poorly done, not to mention incredibly stupid from a business perspective.

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Marginalized non-white people working for him while afraid of the consequences of quitting or disagreeing must take him back to his childhood.

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No, apparently what happens is people post netflitwitter.com, linking to netfltwitter.com, and the X app changes the visible link text to netflix.com but not the link target.

The way you’re describing it is the reverse, like people post netflix.com and the link is changed to netflitwitter.com. That’s not what they’re doing. Or, if it was that people posted netflitwitter.com and it linked to netflix.com, how would that be a problem?

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That COULD be what happened, and it would have a similar effect, but it wasn’t what happened. If you read information about this that becomes apparent. They didn’t change the link target, they changed the link text only.

Someone registers spacetwitter.com and sets up an adversarial site. They then make an “X” post mentioning spacetwitter.com. The app creates a link to spacetwitter.com but changes the text to say spacex.com.

Please read this: krebsonsecurity.com/…/twitters-clumsy-pivot-to-x-…

On April 9, Twitter/X began automatically modifying links that mention “twitter.com” to read “x.com” instead. But over the past 48 hours, dozens of new domain names have been registered that demonstrate how this change could be used to craft convincing phishing links — such as fedetwitter[.]com, which until very recently rendered as fedex.com in tweets.

Notice how it says modifying links that mention “twitter.com” to read “x.com” instead.

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He’s been forcing blue checks on people since the initial change - with Stephen King, for instance. Basically a way to promote the program and make it look like prominent people are paying, but also a confused mix with the previous verification checks.

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We could start a social network called UUayland and really confuse things.

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Yeah, it’s interesting how conservatives fall for this shit and don’t notice that immigrants perform a huge amount of critical labor across the country. They’re demonized to rile the suckers up and also to keep them marginalized so they can’t get minimum wage, workers comp, safe conditions from OSHA, you know, all the shit republicans hate - and it’s no coincidence the industries immigrants work for are owned by conservatives. Agriculture, construction, roofing, meatpacking, trucking - do those sound like OMG Liberal industries to you? Okay, don’t want illegal immigrants, then stop fucking hiring them.

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It’s a bunch of nerds and magic geeks. They would think about sports about as much as I did in the 90s, and if anyone asked me whether the Chicago Bulls had an epic run I’d say uh… what? I don’t know.

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“dem boyz”. huh, wonder what he might possibly mean there.

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Not really a smart move on their part as that will lead to a lot of people marking them as spam. There are a few legit companies I’ve subscribed to and their messages end up in gmail spam because people use that instead of just unsubscribing.

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Yes, I do believe that’s the 3rd grade reading level and understanding conservatives have about this issue.

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“Just stop discussing a current presidential candidate!!”

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If you look into the politics of 1840-1860 it’s fairly obvious slavery is the primary issue. “State’s Rights”, okay, specifically the right of states to base their economy on slavery. Check out the Compromise of 1850 for example. Southerners were eager to expand slavery to new territories like New Mexico and Arizona.

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So the purpose of this is to illustrate how Trump is a classless, whiny toddler?

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Oh shit! I only vote for politicians who are good at carpentry. JESUS after all.

Musk Admits He Doesn't Fact-Check Himself and Has Two Burner Accounts on Twitter (www.rollingstone.com)

Elon Musk‘s erratic posting on X, formerly Twitter, has come back to haunt him once again as a 22-year-old Jewish man pursues a defamation case over tweets in which the tech mogul baselessly suggested the recent college graduate was an undercover federal agent posing as a neo-Nazi during a street fight between far-right...

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There was that bizarre scenario with “Adrian Dittman” recently, where Musk - I mean uh, Dittman - called into Alex Jones’ show and was immediately called out for being Musk because he sounded almost identical. However, the caller denied it. Then Musk started doing little podcasts with “Dittman” apparently because it was so neat they just happened to talk almost exactly alike. Hmm.

Then, there’s “Doge Designer”, who is supposedly an Indian engineer at some Dogecoin focused company, but often says precisely what Musk would say about things, frequently gets replied to by Musk, and has somehow come up with TwitX stats and yet unseen personal photos of Elron with no explanation.

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No, I don’t accept the proposition. There is plenty of false and unverifiable content on FB, reddit, IG and so on.

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Musk allows extreme right wing to flourish and boosts their falsehoods himself, but has personally censored many left voices. What he claims about “free speech” and what he does are not the same.

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What he said as that account is the extra weird part. Some rather inappropriate things.

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There are numerous examples available to anyone who looks for it. Here’s one where he banned a bunch of journalists who had been critical of him, using an excuse about “doxxing”:

cbc.ca/…/twitter-journalist-suspend-1.6688110

There’s another where he suspended the account of a prominent Tesla critic:

cnbc.com/…/elon-musk-led-twitter-suspended-plains…

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“incentivizing and feeding information for possible murder of an individual” is the dramatic excuse musk used, correct. “Assassination coordinates”. I’m not sure where you got incentivized from though. They were accounts that discussed the elonjet account which republished freely available public flight information. Note that musk reinstated these accounts:

theguardian.com/…/elon-musk-reinstates-twitter-ac…

As the platform owner, there are also other ways he could reduce the reach of accounts, which would be difficult to independently prove.

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Where’s his other leg?

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