Want to catch up on your Twitter fix but don't care to have your employer listening in on what your reading? Or maybe you're using an open wifi connection at an airport and and don't care to risk people sniffing your session.
Well, I am not sure when they started this (it might be old), but Twitter, like Friendfeed and others, supports https. This means you can post/read tweets as well as replies, direct messages and even search the user directory all securely via an encrypted session.
All you need to do is visit https://twitter.com instead of http://twitter.com and you're good to go. This is particularly valuable for people who don't share their updates with the world, just their followers. Lifehacker explains the benefits of using https here.
