Twitter's name was changed to X after Elon Musk's purchase. Now, the URL of the once microblogging site has officially changed to «X.com».
Months after announcing that the name of the former microblogging site Twitter will be changed to ‘X’, the company's owner Elon Musk announced today that all core systems of the company have been moved under the domain name «X.com». This includes ‘twitter.com’. Therefore, when you type twitter.com in the address bar of your browser, you will be redirected to x.com.
Twitter became x.com
In addition to the ULR change, X's home page has a corresponding notice at the bottom: ‘We want to let you know that we're changing our URL, but your privacy and data protection settings will remain the same.’
‘X is the trusted digital town square for everyone,’ the company said in August 2023, when it was announced that Twitter would henceforth be called X for good. Since then, new features added to the platform have been added under the name ‘X’ and existing features have been renamed (X Premium, etc.).
According to all these, ‘X’ has an important place for Musk. In 1999, the famous billionaire created X.com, an internet bank that he would later merge with PayPal. After 20 years, Musk bought back the X.com domain name from PayPal. Now, Musk wants to make the X.com platform a versatile place for social media, financial transactions, live broadcasts, orders, etc. According to him, this will be the ‘everything app’.
