Twitter domain change to x screwup could improperly redirect accounts.

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Twitter made a change that would rewrite all twitter.com URLs to x.com URLs. Someone figured out that if they registered a domain that ended with twitter.com it would automatically be shortened to x.com. So they registered neflitwitter.com and it ends up looking like netlix.com and send the person to the wrong place. Here is the story:

www.linkedin.com

This week, X (formerly Twitter) shipped the most amateur URL rewrite I've⦠| Gergely Orosz | 212 comments

This week, X (formerly Twitter) shipped the most amateur URL rewrite I've seen, and created a massive security attack vector. Here is what went down: Twitter has been rebranded as âX,â but the twitter .com URL remains. In an attempt to fix this, starting on Monday (8 April,) X automatically...
www.linkedin.com www.linkedin.com
 
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