You can see why: last year it added forward secrecy to its web servers, which prevents third parties from getting into past information with crusty old encryption keys; it uses always-on HTTPS; it recently encrypted users' Twitter email with StartTLS; it scored a perfect rating in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's "Who Has Your Back" report; and it was the top-ranking company on the Online Trust Alliance’s ranking of websites on privacy, security, and consumer protection.
But even Twitter can't keep users from making their own blunders like, say, mistakenly sending a direct message as - d'oh!!! - a public Tweet.
Twitter can't stop such thick-fingered gaffes even if a user is a top Twitter exec, the case in point now being chief financial officer Anthony Noto.
As the BBC reported on Tuesday, Mr. "Oh, no!" Noto meant to send a direct, private message to a colleague, but that message accidentally went out as a public tweet.
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