twitter.com
twitter.com is the former primary web address for Twitter, and it now redirects visitors to X.com after the social network completed its move to the X brand.
What happens when you visit twitter.com today?
Entering twitter.com in a modern browser normally sends you to X.com, which is now the platform’s main website.
The major domain switch happened on May 17, 2024, when X moved its core web systems to X.com after months of operating under the new brand while still using Twitter URLs.
Old profile and post links using twitter.com generally continue working because the service redirects them to equivalent X.com addresses.
This makes twitter.com a legacy domain rather than a separate social network.
Why did Twitter.com become X.com?
Twitter changed its public brand to X in July 2023 after Elon Musk acquired Twitter in October 2022.
The website address took longer to change because Twitter.com was deeply connected to accounts, shared links, embedded posts, developer systems, and years of web history.
According to Ars Technica's coverage of the migration, X.com finally became the platform's main domain in May 2024.
The redirect also helps prevent billions of old Twitter links across websites, messages, and search results from immediately becoming useless.
What can users do on the website?
X still provides the core functions that made Twitter popular, including posting short updates, replying, reposting, following accounts, sharing media, and reading public conversations.
The service has also expanded into longer posts, live audio Spaces, video, subscriptions, communities, private messages, and creator features.
The web interface matters because users can access many of these tools without installing a separate mobile application.
Twitter engineers previously described the web service as an important way to reach people across many connected devices when explaining the architecture behind Twitter.com's major web rebuild.
How large is X's audience now?
The clearest public numbers should be treated carefully because advertising reach, website visitors, and monthly active users measure different things.
DataReportal's 2026 mid-year research reported that X's own advertising tools showed potential global ad reach of about 450 million people in April 2026.
That figure was down from 611 million in April 2024, although DataReportal warns that X's advertising data has shown anomalies and should not be treated as a direct count of active users.
Separate Similarweb data cited in the same report indicated that unique visitors to X.com in February 2026 were about 26 percent lower than visitors to Twitter.com in February 2024.
These measurements suggest that the service still has a very large global audience, but no single public statistic gives a complete picture of current usage.
How popular is X in Indonesia?
Indonesia remains one of the platform's significant markets.
DataReportal's Digital 2026 Indonesia report says X's advertising tools indicated a potential audience of 22.9 million users in Indonesia in late 2025.
That represented about 9.9 percent of Indonesian internet users and 10.7 percent of adults aged 18 or older at the time.
The same source reported that potential advertising reach in Indonesia had fallen by about 2.17 million users, or 8.6 percent, compared with the end of 2024.
These numbers describe potential advertising reach rather than confirmed monthly active users.
Does the Twitter name still matter?
The Twitter brand remains easy to recognize because people used the name, the word “tweet,” and twitter.com links for more than a decade before the X rebrand.
Search engines, old articles, blogs, academic papers, archived pages, and private messages still contain huge numbers of references to Twitter.
Keeping twitter.com operational as a redirect therefore has practical value even though X.com is the official destination.
For website owners, replacing an old Twitter link is usually optional if the redirect works, although using X.com makes new content match the platform's current identity.
Is twitter.com still worth knowing about?
twitter.com remains useful because it is a working legacy gateway to one of the world's major social platforms and appears throughout years of existing web content.
New users should think of X.com as the active service, while twitter.com is the historic address that continues helping old links reach the same platform.
That unusual status makes twitter.com both a piece of internet history and an important technical bridge between the Twitter era and today's X service.