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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 ...

250,000 HACKED USER ACCOUNTS: TWITTER TO INTRODUCE  TWO-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION Following the recent attack on twitter over the weekend which resulted in compromise of over 250,000 users accounts, twitter is on the look-out for a competent software engineer to implement additional security layer for user logins to the social media cum micro-blogging website. Two-factor (multi-factor) authentication is a way of adding additional layer of security in addition to the regular username and password combination, usually in the form of additional random token generated by a hardware or software, or even a message received via SMS which is valid for a short period of time and cannot be chosen by the user or a potential hacker. It has become obvious that multi-factor authentication is the way to go in handling the simple but ever important authentication question of "who are you" we encounter on on web login forms every now and then!