Thursday, March 17, 2011

Twitter offers HTTPS to increase security

Twitter has taken a big step towards improving account security with the new setting that permanently enables HTTPS. HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) that allows encrypted communication between networks and users.Twitter users can now use the HTTP protocol when accessing twitter this helps the users to enhance their security when surfing on the micro blogging site.

But starting today, users can activate HTTPS permanently by going to their settings and selecting "Always use HTTPS". Any time users will always logged in to the twitter via HTTPS instead of using traditional HTTP method. so users currently need to make sure they are logged into https://mobile.twitter.com instead of  http://mobile.twitter.com if they want a secure connection.
              
Twitter says that it is working on a solution that will make the permanent HTTPS feature work on both its mobile website and twitter.com. This will increase the security of our account and provides better protection to all your information when using twitter in an insecure internet connection one of the example is Wi-Fi network.

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