The account of Twitter CEO Jack Darcy has hacked a few months ago. Soon various defamatory comments were shared on his Twitter. Only then did the world learn that his Twitter account had been hacked. Darcy's account has been purchased before taking precautionary measures.
Although his account was recovered shortly after the account was hacked, the account was corrupted before recovery. Hacking social websites has become a routine thing in recent times. As many as five crore Facebook accounts were hacked last year and user details were uploaded on the Dark Web site.
Huawei Mobile's Twitter account in Brazil was similarly hacked. Incidents of Twitter and Facebook accounts being hacked have become a very natural one.
The Internet is full of ways to protect social networking accounts. One of the most common ways to protect a social networking account is to log out of all devices and public devices.
Locking out all devices is one of the main ways to protect your account. Twitter is one of the most used social networking sites. Twitter is used by about 300 million people worldwide.
There is a dedicated webpage on Twitter to protect the account. What if at times you forget to log in and lock out Twitter on a public device? We will continue to see how to remotely log out of a Twitter account.
* You need to log in to your Twitter account on your mobile phone or laptop.
* Select the Settings and Privacy option.
* Click on the Account option.
* Click on Processor and Sessions option.
* The details of the processors on which your Twitter account will be used will be listed. All devices in Twitter Active mode can be found here. If you click on the Lockout option now, Twitter will be logged out from all your devices.