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

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. Results: Sucuri scan for twitter.com.

twitter.com Sucuri results

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. Results: Unmask Parasites scan for twitter.com.

VirusTotal says twitter.com is flagged as suspicious by ArcSight Threat Intelligence. Results: VirusTotal scan for twitter.com.

twitter.com VirusTotal results

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

URLVoid says twitter.com passed all blocklist engines. Results: URLVoid scan for twitter.com.

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

References

1. SimilarWeb – twitter.com

2. Wayback Machine – twitter.com