Break up the spam patrol, Twitter is going on the offensive in effort to try and curb phishing on other scams that have plagued the social site in recent months. ADHEREL

In a post today, Delbius, twitter’s director of trust and safety team, wrote: “Today, we’re launching a new service to protect users that strikes a major blow against phishing and other deceitful attacks. By routing all links submitted to Twitter through this new service, we can detect, intercept, and prevent the spread of bad links across all of Twitter. Even if a bad link is already sent out in an email notification and somebody clicks on it, we’ll be able keep that user safe.”

The initial monitoring will be geared toward direct messaging, which spammers often use to mass market their links to unsuspecting users.

Basically, under this new plan Twitter will check the link to make sure it’s clean before it gets you. And they may shorten it to have twt.tl base URL structure.