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Following recent Facebook data privacy issues, Twitter has taken proactive steps by notifying users of their current privacy settings, acknowledging the fact that current default settings allows them to share certain users' private information with business partners. Users are encouraged to turn off the sharing if not desired. This blog post will guide you through the steps to check and adjust these settings to prevent your data from being shared by Twitter. Step 1: From your Twitter mobile app main menu, go To "Settings and privacy" Step 2: Go to "Privacy and safety" Step 3: Go to "Personalization and data"  Step 4: Uncheck "Share your data with Twitter's business partners" Step 5: If you decide to disable all settings related to personal data, simply toggle the button at top right corner. If logged on via web browser simply go to Profile and settings > Privacy and Security > Personalization and ...

Over the years Internet penetration has greatly improved across the developing countries of the world especially Nigeria which now has over 92 million internet users. Finding information online has become a common practice as people comfortably search for information using web search engines, especially Google  and get relevant search results that answers their questions and further provides them insight to related articles, events, photos, news and even map locations. Thanks to Google Map Local Guides like myself who diligently contribute to improve the map by sharing knowledge of the local environment. The mobile internet revolution has made it possible for people even in the rural areas to have access to internet on their mobile devices. During my University days, precisely in the year 2008, I carried out a questionnaire research on the topic: "How Effectively Do You Utilize Your Mobile Phones For Internet Access", the responses were amazing as people were alrea...

20 WORST PASSWORDS OF YEAR 2017 Just like the keys to your houses or cars, do you know your “online keys” are even more important? These online keys are simply your passwords and passphrases used to login to your personal or workplace accounts such as computer logons, online portals, internet banking platforms as well as the social media platforms. Image from Pixabay So how conscious are you concerning your passwords and how strong they are? Year 2017 witnessed a lot of online hack cases across the world, yet people still use passwords like '123456', “password”, “abcde”, and so on. According to a research carried out by SplashData ; They examined more than 5 million passwords that were leaked in 2017. Taking the top two spots for the fourth consecutive year are the old standbys, "123456" and "password." A number of variations of each, such as "123456789" and "passw0rd" also made the list. Here are the top 20 worst passwor...