{"id":9656,"date":"2011-03-16T11:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T09:00:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-01-07T12:31:52","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T10:31:52","slug":"wot-goes-social","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mywot.com\/blog\/wot-goes-social","title":{"rendered":"WOT goes social \u2013 Preview the beta version now!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Social networking<\/strong> – 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\u2019s 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 that are contaminated, lead to phishing or malicious sites, or intend to capture more accounts.<\/p>\n

Wouldn’t it be great to know, from the very first glimpse, if the links your Facebook friends are sending you can be trusted?<\/em><\/p>\n

As useful as shortened URLs<\/strong> are when the amount of characters is limited, like on Twitter, they come with a risk: It\u2019s difficult to know where the random mix of characters of a URL redirects the user.<\/p>\n

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?<\/em><\/p>\n

You are invited to try WOT for Social Media<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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<\/p>\n