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Twitter just announced itsadding a security setting that lets users always use HTTPS when accessing the site. For those of you unfamiliar with HTTPS vs HTTP, HTTPS includes both the Hypertext Transfer Protocol and an SSL/TLS protocol to provide encrypted communication, i.e. password protection. This feature ups the security of the Twitter experience, which is particularly important when using Twitter over unsecured WiFi connections. While users have been able to use Twitter via HTTPS by going to https://twitter....

When it comes to utilising Twitter, companies and individuals aren’t afraid of letting the 140-character limitation stand in the way of their grand ideas. The UK’s West Midlands Police use Twitter topublish court reports, whilst the people of Tunisia used Twitter tobreak the newsof their political situation. And remember whenTwitter users helped to find a missing child in only 3 hours? The sky is the limit with what can be accomplished through the micro-blogging site, but quite often users forget that thereisa limit or, rather, there are regulations when it comes to using the site to promote products or services....

Now, more than ever, is the time for brands and companies to begin understanding how the chaotic and real-time world of Twitter can massively influence the ways in which consumers perceive them. With so many different channels of communication and new social networks popping up every other day, it’s not difficult to see why brands tend to miss the mark when it comes to efficiently using individual marketing platforms for their intended purpose....

It probably won’t come as a surprise to you that a great percentage of MySpace users are of high school age. What might raise an eyebrow though is that, across all social networks, Twitter displays the highest percentage of users with at least “some college”. Maybe that explains why we Twitter addicts do well speaking in partial sentences. According to anew study from Pew Internet, LinkedIn users display the highest levels of education, with 37% reporting a Bachelor’s degree and 38% report having completed Graduate school....

We Internet folks are a funny bunch. While there’s a lot of venom that gets spewed across the Web, there’s an amazing amount of good that comes from it, too. Chalk this story up to the latter, and expect to see it in a promotional piece for Twitter at some point in the future. Roughly 24 hours ago, 16 year old Faisal Fri went missing from his family’s home in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia....