Sometimes I hate it when I’m right… I saw that Twitter has replaced the blue bird with an “X”. On a lark, I typed in “x.com” into my web browser just to see…

One guess what website I ended up on?

I’m imaging it now – someone bought “x.com” 20 years ago and cursed the day they ever wasted money on it, yet hung onto it… Their friends all made fun of them… Now they are on vacation spending their winnings…

I hereby issue my next proclamation – Twitter shall be known as “X” or “x.com” within 6 months, and the twitter.com website shall redirect to x.com rather than vice versa.

So Let It Be Written. So Let It Be Done.

Oh – and yes, I’m mildly irritated.

– Zagone

  • richyawyingtmv@lemmy.mlEnglish
    131·
    1 year ago

    Um, what?

    Elon Musk owns x.com, he launched it over twenty years ago. It split into what became PayPal, and then he bought it back.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com

    “X.com was an online bank co-founded by Elon Musk, Harris Fricker, Christopher Payne, and Ed Ho in 1999 in Palo Alto, California.”

    He bought the domain rights back in 2017.

    Literally less than a minute on Google to find that, dude.

    • Zagone@lem.clinicians-exchange.orgOPEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      Alright, I have not tracked Elon’s career and didn’t feel like Googling.

      So executives at PayPal are on vacation, and the world is making fun of Elon for buying it twice.

      • richyawyingtmv@lemmy.mlEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        Why bring up PayPal again? They’ve had nothing to do with x.com since 2017 at the very least. Again, what the hell are you on about?

        Sometimes we all post things that sound clever to begin with but looking back on it, maybe not. This could be one of those times for you I think.

        Elon is still a dick regardless, but man

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I hereby issue my next proclamation – Twitter shall be known as “X” or “x.com” within 6 months, and the twitter.com website shall redirect to x.com rather than vice versa.

    I would like “No shit Sherlock” for 500 please Alex.

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    you don’t casually own a single letter domain for 20 years and curse the day you ever wasted the money on it ($8 per year)

    all the single letter domains were probably purchased the same day the registrations were opened, and as a business decision