Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social

this week Elon Musk’s X began changing users’ tweets in the X app for iOS without their permission

if a user posted “Twitter .com” then it would automatically appear as “X .com”

even worse, other URLs are getting caught in this and being changed too
mashable.com/article/twit...

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swoop jackson @zbs.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 09, 2024 at 23:15 UTC

bsky.app/profile/jere...

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 00:57 UTC

I learned exactly one thing about computer security from reading Ender's Game as a twelve-year-old* and it was to watch out for stupid tricks like this. * way before social media and before its author revealed himself to be quite so awful. Though the signs were there in his early work.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 00:04 UTC

Do they still have any actual programmers on staff with the ability to voice even the meekest of objections, or is it all Musk's acolytes and whatever remaining staffers are too terrified to tell them how they're assholes today?

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beloved character on brand new adventure @guntoucher.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 09, 2024 at 23:26 UTC

is this going to break like every single fucking embedded tweet in any article ever lol

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Scaredyfish 🐟🐡🐠 @scaredy.fish [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 00:28 UTC

Move fast and break things. And keep breaking things. And don't fix them.

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Phil @keeptheskyblue.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 00:34 UTC

The speech is so free it's hard to believe. 😂🤣

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Kristi, Patriarchy Destroyer @kristiwinters.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 07:25 UTC

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Gim @kemowoomy.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 00:42 UTC

Looking forward to twitterhamster dot com users to be in for one hell of a surprise.

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DavidNelsonNM @davidnelsonnm.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 06:26 UTC

Bet if he ever gets to Mars Elon will announce changing the name to X. Which reminds me, when is the sonovabitch leaving anyway?

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Will Hardy @willhardy.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 09, 2024 at 23:17 UTC

Has this man never heard of redirects?

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cmj @cmj.pi.gs [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 00:58 UTC

Hey, Matt, can you wait a day to retweet this tweet on Twitter? I've been monitoring your feed and have been noticing some random hiding of your posts on the timelime. Most everything has to do with your reporting on X/Twitter. Thanks!

Example, but there's more: gist.github.com/cmj/777bd280...

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Crispy Toast (Commissions OPEN!) @crispytoast.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 00:35 UTC

X/Twitter Users to Elon Musk: "EVERYTHING'S BROKEN!!!! FIX IT NOW!!!!"

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kit @kitterbug.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 07:24 UTC

bro quite literally has no idea how to manage a website skull emoji skull emoji

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God-Emperor Tsunami 💙 #FBPE #BLM #GTTO @tsunami65.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 09, 2024 at 23:40 UTC

Musk trashes everything he touches

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slowfox @slooowfox.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 01:20 UTC

lmaooooo free speech my shiny metal ass

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Peter Lynn @peterlynn.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 16:50 UTC

This is what free speech absolutism looks like.

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Dawn Fluffinyan is On Break (Tip Goal $0/100) @fluffinyan.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 00:33 UTC

something something deadnaming twitter is a no but he deadnames his daughter

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"Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying." @nocatsnomasters.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 05:43 UTC

Oh, /now/ he has a problem with deadnaming....

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Josh "Go Drink The Sea" Brown @theotherspeakman.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 13:30 UTC

Garrotting his investment with a bike chain to prove he's top dog, only proving he's the most Divorced Man ever

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nicely toasted. @srr.dev [ View ] Apr 09, 2024 at 23:14 UTC

Probably shouldn't let Elon write the regex himself

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𓃵 fizzily🐐bizina🐐çiya 𓃵 @fizzily.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 04:43 UTC

That's another way to hide the evidence of all the crimes that were committed.

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Jillianne Hamilton @jilly.ca [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 00:02 UTC

Does this mean links to Twitter accounts are just… not going to work? Cause if so, I gotta go scream a bit.

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nick @nrdd.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 05:34 UTC

like they're just changing the presentation of the text???? lolol

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Ron Lewis @ronzonola.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 01:12 UTC

Dude’s killing it.

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Waltman13 @waltmann13.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 11, 2024 at 22:12 UTC

And this is why you don't change the name of a website to a single letter. Not only is "X" objectively horrible as a name, but doing anything with it function-wise only introduces problems that twitter never had before. Elon topping himself with all these garbage decisions is fuckin hilarious.

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amauri gonzo @amaurigonzo.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 02:14 UTC

Wow, that's why he's causing that stir down here in Brazil? (lol)

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Sean King @sean-king.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 04:52 UTC

In case it isn't obvious by now, Elon Musk truly is a dumbass. He is no genius. He's an unhinged, middle-aged incel who happens to have a shit ton of money and is still bitter about getting kicked out of PayPal.

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Tamara Keel @tamslick.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 11:54 UTC

They can't do anything about the hordes of porno spambots, but they had coders diligently working to make sure you didn't hurt Elon's fee-fees by deadnaming his company. What a whiny manbaby.

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@calizaybak.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 09, 2024 at 23:16 UTC

This is the guy you want to have making your rockets and knowing your defense secrets.

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Alex @thatsrite.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 09, 2024 at 23:23 UTC

I was roundly scolded by a big account on here as a "conspiracy theorist" for suggesting that Musk might start editing people's tweets. This was like a month ago.

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Neil Polowin @neilpolowin.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 00:34 UTC

But isn't that tampering with those users' free speech rights? /s

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@preemchoom.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 09, 2024 at 23:20 UTC

Would have expected to see this first on best of dying Twitter 😁

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Tom Wambsgans’ Second Wife, PhD @hlrowe.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 09, 2024 at 23:13 UTC

Really trying to make “fetch” happen, isn’t he?

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Marcos @mvsousa.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 04:09 UTC

I wonder what kinds of code injection this could generate.

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KlemFandango @soupszn.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 13:07 UTC

When I needed to recover my account, the link they sent took me to a Twitter page with Twitter branding. That was really strange. It's like Musk painted over the old stuff, but did the kind of job we've come to expect of him

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Donna Alexander @donnaalexander.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 00:45 UTC

That’s not nice 😂.

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Sue, friend or foe? @suedonym.bsky.social [ View ] Apr 10, 2024 at 00:07 UTC

he's pissed that deposition came out where he calls tweets tweets and twitter twitter with his own mouth several times

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