I'm in awe. Does Twitter have any software developers left, or is it just Elon's nephew working his way through W3Schools?
Possibly, as with the extremely 90s-feeling 'X' name, Musk is simply introducing retro bugs, to attract internet hipsters :)
Does the text only get replaced, and the underlying link stays intact? Surely not?
Otherwise, the link would still go to fedex.com.
That is exactly what happens.
I’m not even sure his nephew is reading W3Schools.
In case you’re reading this, you may have missed this article:
Once you navigate to the link it will be the actual link in the URL bar however.
But this is an easy miss for people after they have already navigated to the link from twitter thinking it's a legitimate link.
I'm not sure what keywords I'd use to find an extension like that.
So, a plan with no drawbacks?
> it would make Google mad, so it won't happen.
Google doesn't control which browser extensions get written?
Please use your Microsoft gaming account to login to my phishing site, xbotwitter.com
It is a borderline racist trope that keeps being repeated (mostly by ex-Twitter developers with a chip on their shoulder) without any hard proof. It is equally likely they are upset over a lack of solidarity in quitting and are perpetuating a lie based on someone's citizenship status.
Anyway some engineer wrote this change and deployed it. The product process failed though, as did the testing process. Rollback was a mess too, given this change was visible for hours (days?)
Twitter was not a marvel of engineering pre-Elon, despite the fantasy arrogant former developers keep perpetuating. Their infrastructure was barely held together with duct tape.
Not many people in the field actually understand protocols at the RFC level. That's the real crux.