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WOT goes social – Preview the beta version now!

Wed 16 Mar 2011 09:00:35 AM UTC — annaleena

Social networking - on Facebook, Twitter and elsewhere - is a big part of what people are doing daily on the internet. Social media allows messages to spread far and fast and become popular, even viral. When the messages come from someone that you know and trust, it’s often perceived as safe. Put these factors together, and you've got a very tempting target for scammers and hackers. Typically, a scammer takes over an account and uses it to spread links which are contaminated, lead to phishing or malicious sites, or intend to capture more accounts.

Wouldn't it be great to know, from the very first glimpse, if the links your Facebook friends are sending you can be trusted?

As useful as shortened URLs are when the amount of characters are limited, like on Twitter, they come with a risk: It’s difficult to know where the random mix of characters of a URL redirects the user.

Wouldn't it be great to know, from the very first glimpse, if the shortened URLs your Twitter followers are sending you can be trusted?

You are invited to try WOT for Social Media

The WOT developers have worked hard to solve these problems and our new version of WOT, with additional protection for social media, will bring WOT reputation icons to links

The new WOT version will be released in a few weeks for general WOT users and newcomers. But because you are reading this, we consider you our "Power Users" and this is a special invitation for you to download the beta version for a sneak peek. The beta of WOT for social media is available for Firefox only. Be quick as there’s only 1000 preview downloads available!

Download the beta version of WOT for Social Media now

Become a Fan of WOT on Facebook

Follow WOT on Twitter

WOT reputation icons on Facebook

WOT reputation icons on Twitter

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Comments

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    • soumyadipdas on Wed 16 Mar 2011
    • 07:56:46 AM UTC

    RE: WOT goes social – Preview the beta version now!

    Good Job.. this will help us to visit safe pages :)
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    • EnlightenedShadow on Wed 16 Mar 2011
    • 10:20:59 AM UTC

    RE: WOT goes social – Preview the beta version now!

    Looks good. I think it would also be awesome to see something that could tell the difference between real Facebook apps and fake ones (hint, hint)...
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    • dafmat71 on Wed 16 Mar 2011
    • 11:12:30 AM UTC

    RE: WOT goes social – Preview the beta version now!

    Nice update, f... good extension! ;)
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    • IssViews on Wed 16 Mar 2011
    • 11:29:26 AM UTC

    RE: WOT goes social – Preview the beta version now!

    Excellent update and will be extremely useful to all. Well done WOT and thank you :D

    Using an obese PC. I offer it a bit and it takes a megabyte.

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    • LaserWraith on Wed 16 Mar 2011
    • 12:14:02 PM UTC

    RE: WOT goes social – Preview the beta version now!

    Too bad it is only for Firefox...oh well.

    ~LW

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    • g7w on Wed 16 Mar 2011
    • 12:33:38 PM UTC

    RE: WOT goes social – Preview the beta version now!

    Quick test:

    good link: http://bit.ly/e1ykr1 | points to forum topic: Domain Rating Check Tool - a request

    bad link: http://bit.ly/exf4E1 | points to [dead site] gmhyopj.ru - scorecard

    [edit]
    why are blog post content width smaller than forum post widths?
    the right-side bar should be the same, so should the remainder of the left-side...

    L00k at all that wasted space >>>>>>>

    ------- WOT Services Ltd. - gives us safety through Web of Trust. WOT Community - gives us security through unity. ∞

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    • MassimilianoF on Wed 16 Mar 2011
    • 02:49:19 PM UTC

    RE: WOT goes social – Preview the beta version now!

    VERY nice news. I'm going to re-bounce it on my blog.

    --- MF IT-UESC - Protecting your Digital Experience. Now.

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    • darrenLCS on Wed 16 Mar 2011
    • 05:57:35 PM UTC

    RE: WOT goes social – Preview the beta version now!

    Have been looking forward to seeing this particularly functionality getting added onto WOT for a while, .I welcome it with open arms
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    • Warxas on Wed 16 Mar 2011
    • 06:43:30 PM UTC

    RE: WOT goes social – Preview the beta version now!

    LOVE it! Now I can browse Twitter safely, and Facebook if I used it :P
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    • leofelix on Wed 16 Mar 2011
    • 08:30:11 PM UTC

    RE: WOT goes social – Preview the beta version now!

    Installed right now and works fine, shortened urls are no longer displayed I mean:o)

    festina lente (hurry slowly)

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    • Galaxyfox on Thu 17 Mar 2011
    • 05:18:03 AM UTC

    RE: WOT goes social – Preview the beta version now!

    Just installed the beta and seems to work fine right now.

    Interesting scorecard URL format for shortened links: http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/_p_je4fksrvjb3q.... This just opens the scordcard for gizmodo.com.

    Best regards, Brian (Galaxyfox) www.TechAirlines.com "Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."

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    • braveheartleo on Thu 17 Mar 2011
    • 04:20:08 PM UTC

    RE: WOT goes social – Preview the beta version now!

    Now our friendly web supervisor can uncover those hidden links. No longer do I need to rely on userscripts for decoding shortened urls, as hopefully more short-url services are added to WOT in the future.

    This also makes rating such links easier.

    EDIT: I ran across a roadblock: even after installing the beta and restarting the browser, I'm not seeing WOT providing ratings for short-urls in Twitter. Also, the "test" that one of the commenters put above doesn't really help, as WOT only providing rating for bit.ly and not the actual link that the short-url points to. Perhaps this is because I'm using Firefox 4 RC1? Can any one provide a way to debug the add-on and see where the problem may be? I'm not getting log messages from the Error Console relating to WOT.
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    • Task99 on Thu 17 Mar 2011
    • 07:51:06 PM UTC

    RE: WOT goes social – Preview the beta version now!

    Great!
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    • Task99 on Thu 17 Mar 2011
    • 07:51:32 PM UTC

    RE: WOT goes social – Preview the beta version now!

    I wish WOT was compatible with the DuckDuckGo search engine. :-(
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    • mentalist3d on Sat 19 Mar 2011
    • 03:35:12 PM UTC

    RE: WOT goes social – Preview the beta version now!

    Missed the beta version, no more available, oh well need to be quicker :D

    I'm noticing more and more people are getting spammier and scammier links on their wall pages so definitely a nice addition. Personally I really like the new shortened URLs warning as I get them sent to me often and I have never trusted URL shortner services, to many scammers abuse the service with their malicious links, so definitely a very good addition to the WOT service/system.
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    • annaleena on Tue 22 Mar 2011
    • 01:03:51 PM UTC

    The update is now in progress

    The update is now in progress. It's started from Chrome: Chrome users will get the update within the next 24 hours. Firefox, Opera, and Safari users will get the update after it's approved by the relevant browsers. Update for IE will follow later. We hope you enjoy WOT for social media!
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      • emar on Thu 05 May 2011
      • 06:41:45 AM UTC

      RE: The update is now in progress

      Can you please elaborate on how to install WOT for social media on both Firefox & Chrome, please? Appreciate it very much.

      Here to learn...

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    • eragon86 on Wed 23 Mar 2011
    • 12:36:17 PM UTC

    RE: WOT goes social – Preview the beta version now!

    Sweet

    Great WOT!

    -= WOT Rock =-

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    • emar on Sat 16 Apr 2011
    • 02:42:45 PM UTC

    RE: WOT goes social – Preview the beta version now!

    I got it installed on my Chrome! A pop-up asked if I want to installed it & of course I agreed & clicked. And I love it so much!! I hate all those scam links... But now I don't know how to explain to others how I got it... Please help...

    Here to learn...