Comment on X user “super pissed” that Musk ordered takeover of his @music account

• R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think the real problem is that Twitter’s account URLs are like twitter.com/username. They haven’t given themselves any wiggle room to mess with stuff like this.

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  • stu@lemmy.pit.ninja ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t know if that’s as big a problem as you think. Assuming they have not previously allowed special characters at the beginning of Twitter handles (I don’t know whether they had the foresight to do this), they could use a character that was disallowed previously and is a legal character in URLs and then include that special character in the URL path so that it would be twitter.com/~user/ or whatever. This would only be applicable to new official accounts and would not break URLs for existing users.

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    • R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Good point actually.

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      • restlessness@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Please join the 42 percent asap

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