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It took a while, but Twitter.com is officially dead.
The launch of X, Elon Musk's version of the social media platform known as Twitter, was a hot mess. Connecting to Twitter.com still worked, and sharing tweets to websites didn't work unless you changed the x in the URL to Twitter (this still works.).
Today, many Twitter desktop users were surprised to see that typing Twitter.com now redirects them to Elon Musk X.
Along with the redirect, a message at the bottom of the webpage says: “We're notifying you that we're changing our URL, but your privacy and data protection settings remain the same.”
The domain transition from Twitter to now X was strange. Almost everything, including the platform's official account, mobile apps, and useless premium accounts, was under the new X brand, while Twitter.com was still running.
Of course, even as Elon Musk continues to turn X into the “everything app” he envisions, users at X are sticking with the original name, telling Musk, “We'll still call it Twitter.”
The platform, formerly known as Twitter, has seen better days. Bots live in people's reports, porn is all over the timelines, and there are too many edible Cheech and Chong commercials.
However, as our favorite tech critic Marques Brownlee said in a post, it's “still Twitter.”
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