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Word has it that the social network is planning to debut two-factor authentication to cut down on user account hacking.

After the Associated Press' Twitter account was hacked into on Tuesday and the accounts of CBS News programs "60 Minutes" and "48 Hours" were hacked over the weekend, it's been made clear that Twitter needs to boost security. But, it may be doing just that.

According to Wired's Mat Honan, the social-networking site has reportedly been working on creating a two-factor authentication for user password verification. Honan writes that the company is currently carrying out internal testing before rolling out the new security control.

This isn't a huge surprise considering Twitter posted a job advertisement for a software engineer to work on two-factor authentication in February. The responsibilities listed for the new engineer were to "design and develop user-facing security features, such as multifactor authentication and fraudulent log-in detection." The job listing also says that the engineer's work will "directly impact the security of hundreds of millions of Twitter users."

While two-factor authentication won't necessarily stop hackers in their tracks, it could make it more difficult for them to access user accounts. Multi-factor authentication requires users to type in their password and then the Web site creates a random code that is then sent to the users' cell phone or some other device -- only after users type this code back into the Web site, can they log into their account.

Twitter has worked on upping its security over the last few years, but hackers have still continued to escalate their attacks. The hackers that got into the Associated Press' account Tuesday sent out a false "breaking" news tweet that claimed the White House had been bombed and President Obama had been injured. This news caused a sudden plunge in the stock market.

While Twitter has been dealing with these recent hacking sprees, several other tech companies have already introduced multi-factor authentication. Microsoft, Google, Apple, Dropbox, and more have all heightened their password security with two-factor authentication over the past couple of years.

According to Honan, Twitter hopes to debut the new security control "shortly."

When CNET asked Twitter about the possible two-factor authentication, a company spokesperson said, "We don't have anything to announce at this time."

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LONDON

Recession may just be a word. But in Britain it may become a habit - and a dangerous one at that.

It's possible that official figures on first quarter economic growth, to be released Thursday, could put the country back in recession, and tension is building.

Although economists on average expect growth of 0.1 percent on the quarter, they warn it would take the smallest statistical variation to put the figure in negative territory. That would place the country in recession, technically defined as two consecutive quarters of economic contraction.

Another recession - the third since the 2008 financial crisis - is already being referred to with foreboding in the media as a "Triple Dip." Experts warn that its confirmation would create a wave of negative media attention that would scare consumers away from spending, feeding into a vicious cycle that has the economy flat-lining.

"It's psychological - this is all psychological," said Cary Cooper, a professor at Lancaster University Management School. "It's about the message that those figures send to consumers and small businesses."

The government desperately wants a strong number to justify its increasingly criticized policy of painful spending cuts. But recent indicators on Britain's economy, the third-largest in the 27-country EU after Germany and France, have been disappointing.

Inflation is rising, cutting into people's standard of living. Unemployment is up. Two international ratings agencies have downgraded the country's credit grade from the top level AAA, warning about the government's fiscal policies.

The government, which has long played on its AAA rating as a sign of its economic might, has been pursuing a harsh program of spending cuts and tax increases to reduce the budget deficit, which at 7.4 percent of annual economic output is more than twice the EU's 3 percent limit. Like many governments across Europe that have been scarred by the bond market turmoil that forced Greece and four other countries to need rescue loans, Britain is focusing on reducing debt quickly, even at the cost of short-term economic pain.

What some governments and economists are slowly realizing, however, is that they may have underestimated the damage such austerity would do.

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When David Cameron said in a radio interview that he did not use Twitter because too many twits might make a twat, at least he had the excuse that he did not know what the word meant. It was explained to him afterwards by his press secretary Gabby Bertin, and he duly apologised.

I doubt that the health minister Anna Soubry can plead ignorance over her potty mouth comment in the current issue of Total Politics on Tory plotters who want to remove David Cameron from the leadership. When people talk about such-and-such a person as an alternative to Cameron, there is no vacancy What we now need to do is stop people in the party engaging in quite a lot of twattery, she said. Shocking. Did she learn that sort of language from her children?

RIP Jim king of putting his Foot in his mouth

On the subject of people who are loyal to leaders, it is sad to hear that Jim Mortimer has died. An honest old cove, he was quite the worst General Secretary the Labour Party ever had.

He played a central part in the disastrous 1983 general election campaign, during which he was annoyed that the press should be speculating that there were moves inside the party to remove Michael Foot from the leadership.

Wanting to put them finally to rest, Mortimer faced a crowded press conference and told the astounded hacks that the matter had been discussed by the Campaign Committee, and that they had unanimously agreed that Michael Foot is the Leader of the Labour Party.

Leaders who lunch stand out from the crowd...

Nigel Farage, UKIPs leader, likes to emphasise the difference between himself and the three main party leaders, all of whom studied economics at Oxford, went straight to work as wannabe politicians, and have sensible lifestyles.

Farage treats it as a selling point that he has worked in the City and lived the lifestyle of a city speculator. I worked damn hard in the City of London for 20 years he told a Press Gallery lunch yesterday up until lunchtime.

EDF wont waste their energy on creating jobs

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