Is your Twitter account 100% Safe and Secure?
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Today Twitter is the fastest growing social networking site. It has increase its traffic more than 300% in a years time. As it gains its popularity so as the security risks. Here are few ways to keep your twitter account safe and secure. Follow these guidelines and keep your account protected..
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- Use https://twitter.com instead of http://twitter.com and your twitter session with your tweets, retweets, DMs will be encrypted.
- Use strong Alphanumeric passwords for your twitter account as a combination of characters, symbols and numbers. Never use same password for different websites and email accounts.
- Choose your twitter application for your computer or mobile device with care, you should not give a try to very less popular or less rated applications. My personal Advice is use Tweetdeck, seesmic, gravity, twitterberry, tweety etc
- Use plugins/extensions for browsers like Chrome, Firefox and IE which shows preview for shortened links on twitter, because you may be lured to click on a malicious link to steal your twitterusername and password.
- Keep your computer up to date with antivirus and anti-spyware to protect your computer from malicious links in social networks.
- Twitter will never asks you to download something and asks to sign into other twitter liked websites with your username and password. Twitter will never reply to you or email you asking for your password. If such things come up to your inbox, be sure its nothing more than phishing.
- Want to update your account with third party applications make sure they connect to your account where you don’t need to share your password (using Oauth protocol). Be careful of third party applications that lure you to give more followers by sharing your username and password.
- Never use same password if you have multiple accounts on twitter.
- Hackers may lure users with malicious links to sign into twitter similar website to give your username and password. Once they take control of your account they post spam messages and other abusive stuff from your account.
- Be aware of clicking DMs containing links from unknown users. A phishing scam may targeted at you through DMs.
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