5 Simple Ways to Keep Your Twitter Account Safe and Secure

At such an advanced technological era, it would be reckless for someone to consider their Twitter account is bulletproof from online dangers – nothing is 100 percent safe.

| Updated: Friday, December 2, 2016, 17:35 [IST]

With the proliferation of technology, today online threats are getting stronger and stronger. Moreover, as organizations continue to deploy stronger security initiative, hackers seem to be one step ahead and are succeeding at hacking.

5 Simple Ways to Keep Your Twitter Account Safe and Secure

The hacking phenomenon is becoming quite common across the globe where hackers are conducting data breach be it on a social media platform or an organization's system mainly belonging to the government and financial organizations.

However, it may not be an unfamiliar case as you might have heard your friend's account being hacked or when you turn to watch or read the news you see many stories that have a headline saying so and so's account was hacked. While in the most recent case if you have read or heard about it in the news, it was Google user's accounts and the twitter account of Rahul Gandhi which were hacked.

More prominently, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Twitter Co-founder and former CEO Evan Williams, have all seen their social media accounts being hacked sometime.

Twitter users especially are more prone to hacking activities as it is one of the most popular social media networks used nowadays. While the platform has been widely used as a news spreading tool, it has extremely been useful to people who want to keep up with what's going on in different corners of the world.

So, it would definitely be reckless for someone to think that their Twitter account is 100% safe from online dangers.Well, accepting the truth may be hard and bitter but in reality, anyone can be hacked.

Essentially, here are a few things that you can do keep your Twitter account secure.

Create a Strong Password

Usually, you should use a strong password that you don't reuse on other websites. While creating a strong password you generally have to use a combination of letters, special characters, letter cases and numbers. You can also have long phrases as your password which you can remember easily at the same time.

It's also a great idea to change your password regularly. It is a good practice.

In addition, you can also use a password management tool to keep your passwords secure.

Use Login Verification

You can easily add an optional feature in Twitter to ensure greater security. As such, Twitter provides a 2 step verification or user log-in verification mechanism to ensure that only you can access your account.

With this, when you go to log into your account Twitter will text you a verification code to your phone. You have to enter the code in order to access your account.

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Don't Click on Suspicious Links

Scammers will always try to access your private information using tweets, emails and direct messages on Twitter using a practice known as "phishing".

In such cases, you need to be very cautious of suspicious links and always make sure that you're on twitter.com before you enter your login information. Never give your username and password out to third parties, especially those promising to get you followers, make you money, or verify you.

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Pay Attention to Third-party Apps

Another key thing is that you need to pay attention to third-party apps built on the Twitter platform that connects with your account. The third party apps that you connect with now have access to all your Twitter data.

They can further take control over your account or take actions that will lead to your account being suspended. Therefore, it's highly important to allow only trustworthy apps to connect to your account.

Update your Computer Software

And yes, you certainly need to make sure that your computer software, including your browser, is up-to-date with the most recent upgrades and anti-virus software.