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Twıtter.com redirects to Turkey's ruling party's website

• sorrythrowaway 13y ago
  I am terribly sorry to use a throwaway but I can't risk associating this kind of posting with my real account as Turkish government has been arresting people for speaking their minds on internet for some time now. I don't know if this is against the law, but this seemed like something twitter officials should know and HN most likely has people who can get in touch with them. http://www.twıtter.com http://www.twıtter.com (i without the dot) redirects to PM Erdogan's political party's website. Turkish alphabet also has the character "I" separate from i on the keyboard so this would be a very easy mistake to make. My guess is that there are people who are trying to reach twitter but reaching AKP website instead. This could be the work of a lone AKP supporter or as sinister as a honeypot to collect people trying to reach twitter as PM Erdogan stated "Twitter and social media is a menace to society."
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• WestCoastJustin 13y ago
  This is not twitter.com, but twıtter.com (note the i). $ host www.twıtter.com www.tw\196\177tter.com has address 67.63.50.58
  • sorrythrowaway 13y ago
    Yes, that is correct. It is impossible for anybody outside Turkey to make this mistake and it is even harder for them to spot it in regular writing. But in Turkey where most protestors communicate over twitter, it is possible to make this mistake. http://www.twıtter.com http://www.twıtter.com resolves to http://www.xn--twtter-q9a.com/ http://www.xn--twtter-q9a.com/ also. edit: curiously, when i tried to ping twıtter.com from mac terminal, it errors: "cannot resolve twıtter.com: Unknown host" but i think that is the i without the dot causing a problem.
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