Last week Twitter announced that they had installed a service that will inspect some of the URLs that are submitted through its systems.  The issue they’re trying to solve is primarily in shortened URLs which hide the destination address.  It’s been used by bad guys to hide malicious destinations.  Dave mentioned this technique a couple weeks ago and gave some great tips on how to avoid the being a victim.  Maybe the Twitter security crew was listening?

In the announcement, Twitter mentions that they’ll focus on direct messages and email notifications about direct messages.  I applaud the effort and hope it’s effective.  I wanted to point this out and give Twitter props for working on the problem.  We’ll have to see how effective it is but it’s great to see an attempt toward progress.

Hopefully we’ll see more news like this from other social media providers.

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