Twitter Adds Internal URL Shortener (Twt.tl) To Combat Phishing And Malicious Links
Over at the official Twitter blog, there’s news of a new internal URL shortener that Twitter has added to the platform.
The shortener, twt.tl, cannot be accessed directly at the moment. Instead, Twitter plans to route all submitted URLs through this new service so that it can “detect, intercept, and prevent the spread of bad links across all of Twitter”, adding that even if a link is shared by a different method (i.e., email notification), they will be able to keep the user safe.
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