- Hey what's going on guys, my name's Larry Snow
and in today's video we're gonna be finishing up
our series on protecting our privacy, data and security
on social networks.
In this last video we're gonna be going over
your Twitter account and protecting your privacy and data.
So let's get started!
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Alright so I am over on my Twitter account
and we're gonna go, to get over to our privacy and settings,
we have to go over to our little icon here
in the top right, click on that,
go down to settings and privacy and we'll be greeted with
a plethora of things to go through.
And right off the bat they give us the account.
The biggest thing here under the account section
is login verification.
Again I've said this, I think all along,
two fact (stutters) authentication is very important.
In this case they're calling it login verification,
but it does the same thing.
When Twitter doesn't recognize you
from a particular browser, you put this in place,
it adds an extra layer of security
where it sends you a specified code and only,
and it sends it to your SMS in this instance
and in your text message you take that code,
put it into the browser and verify that it is you,
and Twitter says, "Okay, you're good to go."
Very important, it's not a recommendation anymore people,
it is mandatory, don't skip that.
And the rest of the stuff is really not that thrilling,
so let's go to the big guy here, privacy and safety.
The big thing here, well there's a few things
I think you need to review.
Tweet location, I have it checked off,
that's just my personal decision.
My suggestion is that you keep it off.
As you've seen probably at least from some of my videos,
it's very easy to track someone
as they move along in the world
with their location ticked off.
So if you're concerned about that, uncheck it.
The big thing right now is I've seen
a lot of photo tagging going on.
It wasn't really big a while ago
but a lot of people were adding me to photos,
or they were adding me to photos until I turned it off.
So similar to what Facebook does, you know,
you can set that up in settings in Facebook
where it says "let me review anyone who's tagged me."
So here you can do that here, or you can say don't allow,
so I don't allow anyone. (laughs)
Okay, discoverability, I don't ...
It says, "Let others find me by email address
"and phone number," I don't have that checked off
because those people who have that information already
can do it through those vehicles,
they can email me or they can call me,
so I didn't see a need to check those off.
Manage your accounts, exactly, and manage your contacts
is exactly that, you can upload contacts, add contacts,
that type of thing from your address book,
I don't see a need for that.
The big thing here I think is personalization and data
and if we click on the edit, and by the way
it's like the smallest thing on this page right?
I click on edit, and you have this list that appears
and I have pretty much everything checked off,
just my decision, because the personalization adds
effects, features, you know you get the tweets
that are related, more related to you, that type of thing,
so I have pretty much a lot of things checked off.
I unchecked share data through select partnerships.
So Twitter will share your data with their partners,
and I just didn't see a need for that,
and I also have it unchecked for personal ads,
I don't see a need for that.
But personalized across all devices?
Yeah I'd like to have that,
personalized based on the places you've been.
Yeah you know I'm sort of a local guy so I wanna see
what tweets are happening in certain areas, yeah.
And track where you see Twitter content across the web.
Yeah sounds good.
Email notifications.
I have almost all of these checked off
except for the one news about Twitter products and features,
feature updates, I don't have that checked off,
ooh and I also don't have tips on Twitter business products.
Cause I think all they'll send me is stuff about ads.
I don't really go into Twitter that often,
so I will go check my emails quite frequently,
and that's why I rely on some of these
features checked off here, top tweets and stories,
updates about performance of my tweets,
tips on getting more about Twitter,
you know all that type of stuff I think is useful
and it's up to you whether you wanna
check all these off like me (laughs) or not.
Alright then we go down to notifications,
and I have who have confirmed your email
and who haven't confirmed their phone number.
And so this is about muting, and I don't wanna get
notifications from people who have not
confirmed their email and have not
confirmed their phone number.
I could also check who have default profile photo
but I'll let that slide.
And I could also check if I'm really concerned
I will check you don't follow them.
So you won't get any notifications from people
that don't follow you.
I also have checked off the quality filters,
so that's more of the personalization type of thing,
it shows me the best tweets,
the tweets that I'm interested in
through what Twitter has personalized for me and all that.
If you wanna learn more about the quality filter
you can click on the learn more.
Muted accounts, I don't mute anyone
because if you offend me in a variety of ways
from (laughs) nudity, pornography, swearing,
whatever your stick is, whatever you think
you wanna need to say and I'm seeing it,
or is directed towards me, I block you,
no questions about that.
Another feature at which I have yet to do,
but I think it might be necessary
to prevent people from being blocked
is just to mute the words that they're
saying in their tweets.
If I add a particular word
that's associated with those types of accounts,
I won't see their tweets and they won't
be able to reach me, so ...
Or I won't be able to see them anyway.
Okay blocked accounts is exactly that, you can go in
and you can review all of your blocked accounts
or you can unblock them if you want.
I won't show you the hundreds of ones
that I've blocked over the years.
And then we have apps.
Now again, all along here we've looked at this apps,
who's connected to your Twitter account?
So we've looked at it in Facebook and LinkedIn
and now here again in Twitter, you wanna make sure
that the apps that have access to your account
are the apps that you want
to have access to your account, right?
So I have to force myself to remember to do this
more often than not because I try out a lot of things
as a social media manager and a marketing person,
I try out a lot of apps and some of the apps
I just forget about, I say, "Okay I'm onto the next one,"
and then I forget that it's connected to my account,
and I have to remember to say,
"Okay let me go in and check and make sure
"I can delete some of these that are no longer
"necessary to have access to my account."
Alright and the last one we're gonna go over
is Twitter data.
So all you have to do here is just click on
confirm password and then click confirm.
And then you'll be able to review all of your Twitter data.
So you can go through there
and you can edit different things.
If you wanna switch your username,
that's probably a big one, switch your email again,
phone number, they want to, let's see,
you have 25 browsers associated with your account,
so you can go in there and click on "learn more"
and then login history, you can see your last 44 logins,
again this is a neat security feature here, folks,
if you don't recognize those logins anywhere
in the last 44 logins in this case where I've logged in,
I should notify Twitter saying,
"I think someone's trying to get into my account,
"or has got into my account and shouldn't."
And then I can also remove places I've been,
and then it goes into some more of the
personalization and the data and the ads,
so this is probably another big thing
that you will need to review.
So that'll do for this one, thanks so much
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