Elon Musk's X botched an attempt to replace "twitter.com" links with "x.com"(arstechnica.com)

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Elon Musk's X botched an attempt to replace "twitter.com" links with "x.com"

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/elon-musks-x-botched-an-attempt-to-replace-twitter-com-links-with-x-com/

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I sympathize. The task is easily accomplished with a properly coded regular expression but, damn, regex is haaaard. Also, there are too many gotchas in parsing random text. It's a no-win situation sometimes. Doing nothing might be the better idea.

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