For every organization it is important to protect it's customers from all the nasty people in the world. Twitter recognizes this need. It has now introduced its own shortened url's to protect it's users from scammers. Before today scammers could just send direct messages with url's to malicious websites in it. A user would receive an e-mail notifications about the direct message and could click the link. There was no way for Twitter to prevent this.
Since today Twitter replaces the direct url in the notification e-mails by shortened versions that link back to Twitter. When you click these url's Twitter checks the website it refers to before a user is send there. This stops all the baddies on the internet dead in their track.
But remember kids: common sense is still the best protection against scammers. Many scamming attempts can be prevented by simply thinking for a second and paying attention to the URL's you are clicking on.
More info at Tweakers.net and Twitter
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