What Is twitter.com, and Is It Safe?

Last Updated on September 5, 2024 by Mathew Diekhake

Twitter (twitter.com) is a microblogging social media site founded by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams.

ALTERNATIVES

Similar sites to twitter.com include instagram.com, linkedin.com, reddit.com, discord.com, t.co, facebook.com, tiktok.com, tumblr.com, patreon.com, and pinterest.com.

DESCRIPTION

Once you create an account, the homepage of Twitter shows a post box at the top of your feed. Beneath it are posts that come from the accounts you follow. You do not usually see your posts in your feed. In the top right corner was an option to subscribe to Twitter Premium. Beneath it, still in the right side column is a widget that shows what’s happening now (trending on Twitter) with numerous topics beneath it. The stories that arrived in my feed were related to the topics I engage with, as well as the topics related to the posts of others that I had liked. 6/15/2024

HISTORY

As of November 2023, twitter.com has 5.9 billion monthly views, according to Similar Web. The Wayback Machine estimates that twitter.com was founded on March 2, 2001. The Internet Archive has saved twitter.com 2,156,535 times between March 2, 2001 and December 15, 2023.

Is twitter.com Safe

Here, I analyzed twitter.com for malware and malicious content to check if it was legit or a scam:

Sucuri says twitter.com is a medium security risk.

Sucuri says twitter.com is a medium security risk because it returned a 400 Bad Request (warning-400) status on the URL http://twitter.com/. Moreover, it returned a 404 Not Found (warning-400) status on the URL http://twitter.com/.

Security hardening flaws:

• Missing security header for ClickJacking Protection. Affected pages:
  https://twitter.com/ for Google’s UA
• Missing security header to prevent Content Type sniffing. Affected pages:
  https://twitter.com/ for Google’s UA
  https://twitter.com/en/privacy
  https://twitter.com/en/tos

Unmask Parasites says twitter.com is clean.

VirusTotal says twitter.com is flagged as suspicious by ArcSight Threat Intelligence.

VirusTotal says it has a Crowdsourced context rank of LOW 1.

URLVoid says twitter.com passed all blocklist engines.

In conclusion, Sucuri says twitter.com is a medium security risk because it returned a 400 Bad Request and a 404 Not Found status. Unmask Parasites says twitter.com is clean of parasites. VirusTotal says twitter.com is flagged as suspicious by ArcSight Threat Intelligence. OVERALL GRADE: Relatively Safe.

Links and Profiles

Website: twitter.com