Twitter changed its name to “X” back in July of 2023. But while the site has taken the past 10 months to slowly adjust to its new name and logo, two things have remained constant: All of us still call it “Twitter,” and the site’s URL is still twitter.com.
It seems the times really are a-changin’ though: As of today, twitter.com is officially x.com. Elon Musk confirmed the transition in a post (formerly known as a “tweet”) on X (formerly known as Twitter):
But while Musk says “All core systems are now on X.com,” it doesn’t appear to be the case for everyone. For example, when I fire up twitter.com out of pure, unwavering habit, the site loads right up without redirecting. For me, it’s still Twitter, even if in URL only. (The X logo is still very much fixed to the top of the page, which I suppose is at least better than Doge.)
On the flip side, if I type in the new x.com domain, it loads up just fine as well. It even makes a big deal about me visiting x.com itself, with a banner thanking me for checking out the new URL. It seems like the site really wants to encourage me to continue visiting x.com rather than twitter.com, even though the latter should automatically redirect to the former.
I’m sure once X’s skeleton crew figures out how to force Twitter URLs to be X URLs, that will be that, until the site runs out of money and folds. I, for one, think typing x.com is not only stupid, it feels like I’m about to visit a very different kind of site—which, at this point, might be true, considering the types of bots that plague X as of late.
If you’re about as sick of X’s shit as I am, there are plenty of X-alternatives to check out. Maybe I’ll see you there, but I’ll probably still be here, too, helplessly typing twitter.com into my browser until the end of time.
