‘Cybersecurity Expert’ Rudy Giuliani Mocked For Having No Idea How Twitter URLs Work

Colby HallDec 5th, 2018, 8:08 am
 

Rudy Giuliani is not just the personal lawyer for President Donald Trump. He is also something of an expert on cyber-security, at least judging by his paid endorsements appearing on Experian’s television commercials warning viewers of the “dark web.” He also was appointed to lead a cybersecurity advisory group for the Trump administration in summer of 2017

But the former Mayor of New York City is catching some flak for complaining about how Twitter “allowed someone to invade (his) text with a disgusting anti-President message,” revealing to anyone with a basic understanding of how Twitter works,  that Mr. Giuliani is…not someone with a basic understanding of how Twitter works.

The odd circumstance started when Giuliani tweeted criticism of the timing of Special Counsel Robert Mueller that neglected to include a necessary space after a period that followed “G-20.” Twitter automatically creates a URL if the word that follows is a top-level domain, which in this case was “.in” which is the top-level domain for India. Giuliani’s tweet read:

Some enterprising individual on the Internet noticed the miscue, quickly registered the domain “G-20.in” and put up a quick site that looked like this:

This did not please Mr. Giuliani, who paraded his ignorance of Twitter URL protocol and alleged that somehow the social media platform allowed someone to invade his text:

As is often the case on Twitter, when someone makes a very public mistake, others on Twitter appear to enjoy that schoolyard tradition of pointing and laughing at the miscue. This was the case in this instance, best evidenced below:

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