Stefan Tanase is a senior security researcher at Kaspersky Lab. He specializes in monitoring 2.0 Web and social media threats. He says a lack of user education and strong policies regarding online security often lead to undesirable events. Do not use public computers to log on to your personal accounts, he says. Instead, keep all of your applications updated operating system, antivirus, browser plug-ins, everything. You can be using the latest version of Google Chrome, you ll still get infected if your Windows security updates are disabled.
Source: https://threatpost.com/how-avoid-getting-your-twitter-account-hacked-081810/74348/