Phishing (fake urls) and/or spam is never fun when you are on a social network. They can steal your password, take your personal info, take over your computer, pile you in spam/virus’s a mile high, and just annoy you. Well it’s no surprise Twitter has had enough of it.
“Today, we’re launching a new service to protect users that strikes a major blow against phishing and other deceitful attacks. By routing all links submitted to Twitter through this new service, we can detect, intercept, and prevent the spread of bad links across all of Twitter. Even if a bad link is already sent out in an email notification and somebody clicks on it, we’ll be able keep that user safe.” – Twitter Blog.
For the time being it will be only for direct messages, and email notifications. As such you may notice the url being shortened to twt.tl. It’s nice Twitter is taking a stand on phishing urls since nearly every major event is swarming with them, or tons of users get hacked and start storming you with spam. Slowly but surely this service will be rolled out.
Well, that’s definitely great! We, all are actually vulnerable to every phishing attack. We have our own protection on our PC’s, yet better to know that Twitter did something about it.
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2nd time akismet marked your comment as spam >.>. Anyways it is good that Twitter cares
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