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RIP Twitter Dot Com: Elon Musk Moves Social Network to X Web Address


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 x.com.

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. To celebrate the new X name, Musk had installed a blindingly bright “X” sign on top of the company’s building in San Francisco but was forced by the city to take it down after complaints, including that the “extremely intense white stroboscopic light” was “causing distress and nausea.” Meanwhile, Musk earlier this year sparred with Stephen King, after the legendary horror writer said he refused to refer to Twitter as X.

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