Secure Your Twitter Sessions with https

Want to catch up on your Twitter fix but don't care to have your employer listening in on what your reading? Or maybe you're using an open wifi connection at an airport and and don't care to risk people sniffing your session. 

Well, I am not sure when they started this (it might be old), but Twitter, like Friendfeed and others, supports https. This means you can post/read tweets as well as replies, direct messages and even search the user directory all securely via an encrypted session.

All you need to do is visit https://twitter.com instead of http://twitter.com and you're good to go. This is particularly valuable for people who don't share their updates with the world, just their followers. Lifehacker explains the benefits of using https here.

Comments

[Allan]

That works pretty good, unless your boss is already following you. ;)

[portenkirchner]

I also changed my desktop application Twitterrific to connect through https. How to do this you can read here: http://hackd.net/2008/05/20/making-twitterrific-secure/

[Subhankar Ray]

Now I understand https: [PKI] was invented so that your boss cannnot do a man in the middle attack :-)Sorry guys, if you are going through a proxy [most enterprise has] the https connection will have a break there, and your company can see your Tweets.

Cheers!

[robin]

thanks, could have used this monday!...allan has a point! thanks!

[@davethecfre]

does tweetdeck do this yet?

[MacSmiley]

Are you sure this is accurate? I just tried it on the Twitter website, and my two (2) HTTPS messages showed up in seconds on the public timeline and then back in my Twitterrific desktop client.

[Steve Rubel]

Mac, Twitter functions the same way under https as it does with http. Theonly difference is that your session is encrypted.

[Internet Marketing Business Re]

Very cool I didn't know this. Thanks for the info.