Let's talk about some ways to help keep your account secure.
Twitter recomends that you selecy a strong password, and when I say strong I mean strong!
What I would consider a strong password that consider just good.
They of course recomend that you watch out for suspicious looking links. What is a supicious looking link?
Well, for one thing is if it's coupled with a starnge looking message, any link involved should be considered supisious. If a fellow twitterer says something that is heresay or sounds like they know about someone bashing you, don't click on the link. Message them back and ask them if they indeed sent the message.
If they say yes, ask them to give you more information about it like:
1. What was it that was said, or what was on the supposed video, or ask them to give you more information.
2. What involvement do they have with the whole situation?
3. How did they get their information and why are they involving themselves with it?
If it's spam or someone who has hacked a fellow twitterers account, your fellow twitterer will likely respond wth a double o negative, they did not send you a message. At that point let them know they have been hacked.
Another thing is to always make sure you are actually on Twitter.coms website before you type in your password. Let me tell you that when I received a strange message and clicked on the link, it appeared for all intents and purposes to look like Twitters home page. These people are good at what they do so be very careful and make sure you are really on twiiter.
According to Twitter, their URL's always have http://twitter.com/.
Phishing websites can look very similar to Twitters login page. Here are some examples below.
http://twitter
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