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Twitter adds permanent HTTPS setting

Twitter has offered HTTPS access for some time, but starting today, users can activate HTTPS permanently.
Twitter has offered HTTPS access for some time, but starting today, users can activate HTTPS permanently.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • Twitter has been working to improve security for the site
  • HTTPS allows encrypted communication between networks and users
  • Users can activate HTTPS permanently by going to their settings
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(Mashable) -- Twitter has taken a big step towards improving account security with a new setting that permanently enables HTTPS.

HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) allows encrypted communication between networks and users.

It creates a secure tunnel through the inherently chaotic web, decreasing the chance that somebody will access a user's account information on an open Wi-Fi network, for example.

Twitter has offered HTTPS access for some time. But starting today, users can activate HTTPS permanently by going to their settings and selecting "Always use HTTPS."

These users will always be logged into Twitter via HTTPS rather than the traditional HTTP method.

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The company notes that its mobile website still can't force HTTPS permanently.

So users currently need to make sure they are logged into https://mobile.twitter.com rather than http://mobile.twitter.com if they want a secure connection.

Twitter says it is working on a solution that will make the permanent HTTPS feature work on both its mobile website and Twitter.com.

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  • MarkyDesade
    A Twitter haiku

    Twitter narcissist
    Look At Me Yes Look At Me
    Ahh~~~security
  • vengfulsoul
    i h8 twitter
  • heyitsadam
    It would be devastating if someone hacked my Twitter and said I was at McDonalds when I was really at Chilis.
  • xklusivguy
    I honestly think twitter is kinda useless but the fact is that twitter is one of the "social networking" companies that actually do more about user privacy.. I remember the incident with the FBI and Assange..