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Twitter tests URL shortening feature

Twitter is testing a feature intended to make it more convenient and secure for end users to include shortened Web addresses, or URLs, in messages they post via the popular microblogging service and via its third-party applications.

Written by Juan Carlos Perez • 10 June 10 05:27
Twitter now blocking bad URLs, but imperfectly

Hoping to deal with a growing problem, Twitter has quietly introduced a feature to prevent users from posting links to malicious Web sites. But security experts say that it can be easily circumvented.

Written by Robert McMillan • 04 Aug. 09 05:23

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