"It's official: Twitter.com is about to bite the dust forever. According to a series of tweets from X's @Safety account, posted between October 24 and October 25, the social media platform plans to finally retire the Twitter domain on November 10. Currently, searching for Twitter.com still leads directly to X, but soon, that will no longer be an option. The domain's phase-out comes more than two years after Twitter owner Elon Musk renamed the platform X in July 2023, much to the dismay of many loyal users."
"At the time, critics argued that the rebrand was destined to fail, with some going so far as to call it "brand suicide." And while many former users have indeed jumped ship to competing platforms like Threads and Bluesky in the years since Musk's $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in 2022, it looks like the new name is here to stay."
"The announcement that Twitter will soon disappear into the annals of internet history came subtly buried in a message from X's @Safety account that, due to the domain's retirement, users who rely on certain two-factor authentication (2FA) methods will need to update their log-ins before November 10. According to an initial post from @Safety, all X accounts that use a security key as their 2FA method will need to re-enroll their key in order to keep accessing X after November 10."
Twitter.com will be retired on November 10, and the old domain will stop redirecting to X. The domain phase-out follows Elon Musk's July 2023 rebrand of Twitter to X and comes after user migration to alternatives like Threads and Bluesky. X's @Safety account notified users that certain two-factor authentication (2FA) methods require updates before November 10. Accounts using physical security keys or passkeys must re-enroll those keys to maintain access. Authenticator app users are not affected. The update is intended to preserve account access and maintain security during the domain retirement.
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