Does Twitter's malware link filter really work?
Today, researchers from F-Secure stumbled upon a long-anticipated feature in Twitter’s fight against malicious abuse of its service - a malware URL filter preventing automatically registered or compromised legitimate accounts from tweeting known malicious links.
Whenever a Twitter user is attempting to post a link to a known malware/phishing URL, a “Oops! Your tweet contained a URL to a known malware site!” message will appear, and prevent this from happening.
Does the feature really work? A five minute test showed disappointing results, making it obvious that it’s still in experimental mode.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3872
Well, nothing works perfect. I don't twit (no plan to tweet too) but I like it when vendors are attending to known issues on their services or products instead of 'ignoring'. Let's hope though that "most" and "obvious" is going to be taken care of but if "less" and "the obvious" is not caught then they need to do better job. There are third party: WOT should help, Finjan SecureBrowsing support Twitter site. Or better if Twitter users will use services like sURL and ShuURL.