Is That Email Really From Twitter? Most Likely, Yes

Hackers and phishers and spammers and zombies are always coming up with ways to get your personal information, but Twitter wants you to know that when you receive an email from Twitter.com it’s a the real deal. Probably.

Twitter posted today about it’s snazzy new email protocols, specifically “a new technology called DMARC that makes it extremely unlikely that most of our users will see any email pretending to be from a Twitter.com address.”

DMARC is a relatively new security protocol created by a group of organizations to help reduce the potential for email-based abuse.

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