WASHINGTON: Everyone likes to be safe especially on the social websites such as Twitter, FaceBook, Google Plus and others.
We have gathered some special tips and tricks to help you for maintaining security of your accounts on on famous micro-blogging website Twitter.
Now a day’s use of social website is very common, and with the introduction of smartphones internet is available on finger tips which makes even easier to use the sites.
As easier to reach you account social account it become the unsecure it is turning out to be. So here are few tips and tricks to make yourself secure.
Avoid mentioning your location:
Many users like to add their location while tweeting, this might be interesting to few by but it can be a big security risk.
To turn off the location feature:
Click on the ‘settings’ option from the drop down menu to the right of the search box. Uncheck the box (if it is checked) next to the ‘Add a location to my tweets’ option and then click the ‘Save Changes’ button from the bottom of the screen.
Consider enabling Twitter’s privacy and security options:
Besides removing your location from tweets, Twitter also offers a couple of other security options that you should consider enabling if you haven’t already done so.
The ‘HTTPS Only’ option box in the Twitter ‘Settings’ menu will allow you to use Twitter over an encrypted connection which will help protect your login information from being hijacked by eavesdroppers and hackers using packet sniffers and hacking tools such as Firesheep.The Tweet Privacy ‘Protect My Tweets’ option also lets you filter who receives your tweets rather than just making them all public.
Keep personal info out of your profile
Given that the Twittersphere seems to be a lot more public that Facebook, you might want to keep the details in your twitter profile down to a minimum. It’s probably best to leave out your phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and other bits of personal data that might be ripe for harvest by SPAM bots and other Internet criminals.
These are few tips to secure yourself on twitter.
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