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Twitter Starts Filtering Malicious URLs in Direct Messages Twitter has announced that URLs posted via Direct Messages will be screened by a new service, which blocks phishing and other attacks. The links are automatically shortened to a twt.tl form, so that they can be blocked at any point in the future.Twitter was recently confronted with a wave of highly successful phishin... 10 March 2010 10:38 GMT