Twitter is a mainstay of people of all ages to keep in touch with each other and seemingly validate their own existence. What measures are in place to secure Twitter accounts and could be improved in securing them?

 

Twitter is a social media site, and its main purpose is to connect people and permit individual to share their thoughts with a big audience. Twitter allows users to discover stories regarding present biggest news and events, follow people or companies that post content they enjoy consuming, or simply communicate with friends.

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• We take our social information to be granted and secured and we have no fears on security and privacy of our accounts generally called asUSERACCOUNTS.However, twitter takes following measures to protect and secure user accounts-

• Two-Factor Authentication - It works as an extra shield i.e. a second layer of security and protection for an user's account.In case some cyber geek or criminal somehow gets the user's password but they can not take over that account because they will also need authentication for the second factor which is generally a question or backup code.
• Revoke Access To Third-Party Apps - Most likely the user logs in using social account to third party apps like follower analyzers or the apps which asks access for posting on the user's behalf.But these third party apps can also affect the user's account security and data.Thus the user has the option to give access to those applications only on which the user trusts.
• Giving the option for PRIVATE Accounts - If the user did not want their photos to be public or to be seen by anyone unless they want them to see (if we allow them to follow us or if we follow them) we can make our account private.
• Ability to BLOCK a user - Sometimes the user can end up having followers whom the user think are inappropriate or spam.The user can block those particular person or particular accounts,thus anyhow, they will not be able to see the user's profile.
• Private Information Feature - Suppose the user wants to follow peoples but did not want his/her information to be shared with anyone. In such case,the user can keep his information private which would not be shown to anyone.
• Access to user location - twitter has also provided the feature of adding location to the photos where they were clicked,but if the user did not want his/her location to be shared then he can also TURN OFF location access by which the account becomes more secure.

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these measures can be further improved to protect the user accounts like introducing Face Detection and Voice Recognition like features. Also the data which is being saved on cloud can also be protected with more secure software and applications.