Whenever creating a(n) account, try not to fill in ANY personal details. Restrict people (all if possible) from seeing your account infomation and posts that contain private infomation. Do not upload pictures that contain youself in it.
If you think that your account have been hacked, change your pasword immediately. Do not give out your password to anyone including your family and your closest friends.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Twitter: Dangers and uses
Twitter was founded in 2006 and has over over 65 millions tweets everyday and that averages to 750 tweets per second. It was created mainly to stay connected with a group of friends through SMS channels, but never meant to be used on the internet much and that was the reason for its 140 character limit.
Dangers:
Twitter is rapidly becoming a serious threat to corporate information protection. The program’s great strength — many-to-many messaging — becomes its great weakness in this context.
Imagine this scenario: 20 people are in a confidential meeting, one of them using Twitter. This attendee broadcasts an off-hand “tweet” to his or her “followers”. With traditional instant messaging, that message would be received by perhaps one or two others. With Twitter, that comment may be seen by 10, 100, 1000, or more followers.
Dangers:
Twitter is rapidly becoming a serious threat to corporate information protection. The program’s great strength — many-to-many messaging — becomes its great weakness in this context.
Imagine this scenario: 20 people are in a confidential meeting, one of them using Twitter. This attendee broadcasts an off-hand “tweet” to his or her “followers”. With traditional instant messaging, that message would be received by perhaps one or two others. With Twitter, that comment may be seen by 10, 100, 1000, or more followers.
Source from http://www.zdnet.com/blog/projectfailures/twitter-is-dangerous/542
Uses:
Micro-blogging, a supplement to small-group discussion.
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