By John McCarthy

Twitter has announced that it will now offer bounties of $140 to code experts who locate bugs in the social network’s coding that could be exploited to compromise security.

The social network outlined a scheme on Thursday where it will pay those who find security flaws in the site a minimum of $140 as the prize for their vigilance and discretion.

The initiative was started by a company called HackerOne on Twitter’s behalf in June. The ‘bug bounty ‘payments were however only implemented this week to provide coders an incentive not to exploit any bugs they find.

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Source: The Drum