Beginner Twitter Safety Tips
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Jan 4th, 2010 |
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Once you become familiar with the Twitter interface and have acquired a following, it’s easy to become comfortable with chatting to other people and being friendly. For the most part – this is a good way to make and maintain several great connections. However with every social media platform there are a few out there that will stop at nothing to use and abuse your kindness for profit or just shear malice.
- For business purposes, you may want to list your physical address on your Twitter profile, or make it available as a link. However, it is not advised you do this for your personal address. If it is important for people to get a hold of you for whatever reason, it’s better to provide a post office box number. Remember, while you have control of whom you follow on Twitter and who follows you, you don’t have control over who sees your profile.
- Twitter is vast, with a network that reaches wide. If you are planning a vacation, use Twitter to gush about it or post pictures when you return. Divulging times and dates when you will be away from your home or business is asking for trouble from unscrupulous people who may make you a target from the information they glean from your Twitter stream. If you need to maintain an active feed set up automated Tweets when you’re away so it looks like you’re still active in the community.
- If you have not protected your Twitter updates, it means that everything you Tweet is seen on a public timeline. Anyone who accesses the Twitter homepage can then view your Tweets, so keep personal information you wish to be private to yourself, or protect your updates so only the people you accept as fellow Tweeters can see your postings.
- Do not give out your Twitter password. If you have delegated Twitter duties to another person in the case of a business, make sure they are instructed also to not give out the password to the Twitter account, and change the password often. Giving out a Twitter password is like giving someone the key to your front door, so be just as careful.
- There are a plethora of viruses, and Trojans out there just waiting for you to click on a Twitter link to infest your computer. Keep your virus program up-to-date and run it daily. The best advice is to not click on a link from someone with whom you’re not familiar, and don’t post links to Twitter that you have not checked out yourself. If you receive a link in a direct message, unless it’s from your someone you trust, resist the temptation to click on it.
Common sense will take you a long way toward protecting yourself on Twitter. As with most things, the more familiar you become with Twitter the more comfortable you become, but this is the internet, after all. Utilizing the above Twitter safety tips will insure both a pleasant and profitable Twitter experience.
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You make a good point about the passwords. People at work have them all over the place, on yellow stickies , posted to there cubicles, computers and desks. All someone has to do is walk by a read the passwords and poof they are owned.
As Twitter has become the mainstream, crackers target the site more frequently. others do not seem to realize this. Even one of the founders decided to loose his mind and get cracked.
“Common sense will take you a long way toward protecting yourself on Twitter” Bravo!!!!
I hope I will get a lot more visitors over twitter now. Great tips.
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