Twitter now Blocks Malicious Web sites

Aug.04, 2009 in Technology

Thanks to Google’s Safe Browsing API, Twitter is now using it to protect its users from the “bad websites”.

When a users sends out a “Tweet” with a URL/link, Twitter will check the url or link against Google’s database of suspected phishing and malware sites.

Twitter will then automatically block the “Tweet” if it found the linking to a dangerous site.

Read the full story at ZDNet.

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