How to keep your Twitter account safe when using Twitter for Festivals and Events. Created by Susan McNaughton, Edinburgh based social media manager for festivals and events in central Scotland.

1. SOCIAL MEDIA FOR FESTIVALS
Blocking Spam – Keeping Safe

2. TWITTER SPAM
 Like any other form of communication, there is
junk mail
 Be wary and keep your account details secure
 Fishing/Pfishing for your password
 Giving your log-in to an application without
realising
 Twitter does try to keep the site safe – report and
block spammers to assist

3. BEWARE!
 Which of these DMs
would you delete
immediately?
 Spam spreads through
people clicking on
bogus links

4. PLENTY OF HELP VIA TWITTER

5. GENERAL RULES
 Don’t click on a link if you don’t trust or know the
source
 If you suspect your account has been ‘hacked’
then change your password immediately
 Check which applications have access to your
account and revoke any you no longer need or
don’t recognise

6. APPLICATIONS WITH ACCESS

7. GET BUSY, GET SOCIAL
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