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Make Twitter more secure with HTTPS

Elena Santos

Elena Santos

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As announced on their official blog, Twitter has taken an important step in making their service more secure for users: they’ve added a new option in the Settings menu that lets you choose to always use the HTTPS protocol when accessing the Twitter website.

HTTPS is a combination of the regular HTTP protocol used on the web with the SSL/TLS protocol to provide secure identification and data encryption in your communication with web servers. It’s often used for sensitive transactions and online payments.

Using HTTPS in Twitter will improve the security of your account and protect your information, especially when using Twitter over an unsecured Internet connection such as a public WiFi spot. The HTTPS option has already been made default when you log into Twitter – to protect your password – and on the official Twitter app for iPhone and iPad.

In order to enable HTTPS on the Twitter website, log into your Twitter account, go to Settings and scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page. Tick the Always use HTTPS and you’re done!

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