It begins when the trial of the young French accused of pirating the Twitter account of Barack Obama as micro blogging site just to announce that the investigation by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC authority American competition) on its practices in safety was abandoned.
In fact, Twitter and the FTC have reached an agreement in which the first named is committed for the next twenty years to avoid misleading users about the level of protection it offers, knowing that its security program will be audited every two years for ten years by independent investigators.

The FTC opened its investigation after two piracy Twitter in January and April 2009 when the accounts had been hijacked celebrity and infiltrations in the managements had enabled servers from reaching subscribers' personal data. Accused of laxity, Twitter was facing a large fine and was forced to make resetting passwords for its employees. To his defense, the site of micro bloggEng had minimized the number of accounts hijacked, not mentioning that 55 eventually. (EP)