X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs

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X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in users' posts, breaking legit URLs
mashable.com

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."

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

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!!!

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