The twitter.com area is formally being retired; 2FA motion required

X, the social media platform previously generally known as Twitter, has quietly introduced that the twitter.com area can be retired and that the corporate would require anybody utilizing a safety key (YubiKey or passkey) for two-factor authentication (2FA).

Final week, X’s security account posted that each one accounts that use a safety key as their 2FA methodology should re-enroll their safety key by Nov. 10 to proceed utilizing X. The corporate additionally famous you could re-enroll utilizing the identical safety key or create a brand new one.

After Nov. 10, if any customers haven’t re-enrolled their safety, their accounts can be locked till they both re-enroll, swap to a unique 2FA methodology, or elect to not use 2FA in any respect.

After all, this led to hypothesis that the corporate’s authorization infrastructure was compromised. Nonetheless, X’s security account posted a follow-up clarifying that the safety keys are presently enrolled with the previous area. The brand new safety keys can be tied to the x.com area, permitting the model to retire twitter.com.

Customers additionally identified that lots would break if X determined to retire the area title , with some noting {that a} honest quantity of the social media platform’s backend nonetheless makes use of the previous Twitter.com area. 9To5Mac identified that X’s automated substitute of twitter.com with x.com in tweets has led to firm accounts like Grok AI publishing tweets that may not make sense at first.

So as to add some context, Twitter (slowly) transitioned to X branding final Might, finishing proprietor Elon Musk’s imaginative and prescient for a shakeup of the longstanding platform.

Supply: 9To5Mac