Twitter is really going to disappear now: soon you won’t be able to go to twitter.com anymore
Of course, it was already gone, but for those who still find it challenging to find X, you can still go to twitter.com to get to Elon Musk’s social media. For now, but not for much longer. Twitter.com is really going to disappear now.
Twitter.com is disappearing
We’ve stopped calling X ‘former Twitter’ for a long time now: the social media has changed enormously since Elon Musk took over. What Jack Dorsey once built is no more. And if you’re looking for it, you’d best go to Bluesky, his new social medium. In the meantime, X is doing quite well: there was a dip for a while, but the social media still seems to be widely used; it’s simply one of the fastest platforms to use when looking for information.
X’s security account has now posted that it will pull the Twitter plug. If Twitter.com goes offline, the social media platform with the blue bird will be finished. It’s not just good to know who was still going to X via Twitter.com: it’s essential information for anyone who still has their two-factor authentication app ‘tuned’ to Twitter. Then you really need to switch to now. It’s not easy to access your X account if there are problems. It will be a bit of a switch, especially for people with a YubiKey or a passkey.
Selling handles
The big move, or instead shutdown, is scheduled for November 10th. Anyone who hasn’t changed things by then will have difficulty regaining access to their X account. It’s not that X is tired of paying for the domain name or covering referral fees: it’s mainly a way to separate the wheat from the chaff. It wants to sell accounts it no longer uses, so it needs to know which account names it can sell.
Anyway, X is reassuring people that this is all planned and not a security issue or anything like that. It’s time for the next step in officially saying goodbye to Twitter.
To clarify: this change is not related to any security concern, and only impacts Yubikeys and passkeys – not other 2FA methods (such as authenticator apps). Security keys enrolled as a 2FA method are currently tied to the twitter[.]com domain. Re-enrolling your security key will… https://t.co/PlXOTnNXPM
— Safety (@Safety) October 26, 2025