Comments on: “But I didn’t Tweet that!!” Stopping 3rd Party Apps from Spamming using your feed

By: Jodie

Jodie — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:13:09 +0000

Good to know Leonid! Nice to have someone even more ‘in the know’ than me swing by. It’s settled – the best solution; change the password!

By: Leonid S. Knyshov

Leonid S. Knyshov — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:50:38 +0000

One clarification is in order:

If the application does not use the oAuth authentication mechanism (The Twitter.com Allow/Deny screen) and instead has your username and password, it won’t show up in those settings.

Newer applications usually use oAuth, unless they are explicitly created to facilitate deception.

In summary, you will likely need to change your password. Spammy applications prefer to stay invisible and not show up in your “Connections” list.

By: Cris Vleck

Cris Vleck — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:45:00 +0000

Thanks for the post Jodie. I wasn’t aware of how many apps had access to my account.

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By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:17:32 +0000

Thank god somebody said it. I’m not as benevolent as you and have just been running around spamming them right back with my “Get 250,000 Followers” link.

The next step, of course, is to teach people not to be numbers-obsessed short-cutters who sign up for these spam services in the first place, but that’s a bigger project.