Bangalore: Aiming to prevent phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microblogging service, Twitter has launched a new link-screening service. Twitter will shorten URLs, so users will see some links in e-mail notifications and direct messages from other users written as twt.tl, Twitter said in a blog post, as reported by Owen Fletcher from PCWorld.
Phishing attacks ballooned on Twitter last year as the service grew in popularity. Twitter's new link-screening service comes after it last year started using Google's Safe Browsing API to check for malicious content in links posted by users.
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