RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address
variety.comTodd Spangler NY Digital Editor Elon Musk is retiring one of the last vestiges of Twitter — the twitter.com web address — as the social network has fully moved over to the x.com domain name. “All core systems are now on X.com,” the multibillionaire tech mogul posted on the platform late Thursday.
With the changeover, all twitter.com URLs now get redirected to the corresponding address on x.com. When users logged on to Twitter/X on Friday, they saw a message that said: “Welcome to x.com!
We are letting you know that we are changing our URL, but your privacy and data protection settings remain the same.” The move comes after Musk unilaterally rebranded Twitter as X in July 2023.
In a late-night post, he declared that Twitter was no longer the name of the social network — reborn as X, which appears to be his favorite letter of the alphabet. “Soon we shall bid adieu to the Twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds,” Musk posted on X last July.
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