Subj : Unsurprisingly, X users locked out in the cold after botched auth
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Thu Nov 13 2025 12:15:09

Unsurprisingly, X users locked out in the cold after botched authentication 
switch

Date:
Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:08:39 +0000

Description:
Another botched security update from X.com? Who would have guessed.

FULL STORY
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are unable to access X.com due to botched authentication switchover Endless 
redirects are being reported Migration from twitter.com to x.com is causing 
issues 

Numerous users of X (formerly Twitter) are reporting being locked out of 
their accounts thanks to a botched authentication switchover. 

The issue relates to the retirement of the old twitter.com domain in favor of 
Elon Musks apparent sentimental attachment to x.com. 

Users who rely on passkeys and hardware security keys are being sent into an 
endless loop to re-enroll their chosen form of two-factor authenticator. 
Logging in has never been harder 

The move from twitter.com to x.com began in May 2024, with X warning users 
that if they did not manually migrate their passkey or hardware security key 
authentication by November 10, they would be locked out of their accounts 
until they migrated or chose a different form of authentication (such as an 
authenticator app , which hasnt been affected by the migration). 

Lo and behold, November 10 has passed and users are being forced to migrate 
their authentication method. Unfortunately for them, many users are 
experiencing error messages during migration, or are being caught in a 
perpetual loop of redirects. 

Passkeys and hardware security keys are supposed to be a quick and secure way 
to ensure that the person logging in to your account is actually you, but 
currently for X users, that's not the case. 

Outage tracker site Downdetector still shows some users are struggling to log 
in three days after the deadline, and X hasnt released an official comment on 
the matter. 

This isnt the first time X has been subject to a botched security change. In 
2023, the Tor onion service that allowed users in areas with restricted or 
censored internet access to Twitter went down, and thanks to Musks massive 
layoffs the service remained offline . 

Elon has made several questionable changes to the platform since its purchase 
for $44 billion in May 2022, including changes to the way blocking worked on 
the platform that resulted in millions of users flocking to X-alternative 
BlueSky. X has also seen large-scale layoffs following Elons purchase of the 
platform.



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/unsurprisingly-x-users-locked-out-in-th
e-cold-after-botched-authentication-switch


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