HACKER Q&A
📣 frabcus

Why is X's website still on domain twitter.com?


https://x.com/ still returns a 301 redirect to https://twitter.com/

It's been some time now, what technical or SEO or other reason could there be for X not moving the website domain?

  👤 raxxorraxor Accepted Answer ✓
I guess there are countless applications that would break even with a formal redirect from twitter.com to x.com. There are a lot of third party apps and other connectors that probably would need to be updated. I guess they will still keep the domain for a long time.

The name change does seem to be quite a questionable policy decision though, not only because of the technical difficulties. It is like Coca Cola renaming itself to Flopsi.