Twitter changed the authentication method from Password to OAuth. This means any
third-party need authentication via Twitter to access your Twitter account and you can see list of all third-party Twitter apps, which need authentication.
Specially this will remove your hassle of sharing username and password to any app and increase security of your account.
If some application turns out to be spammy, you can always remove it from your Twitter account setting page. In this post I will share how you can check which all apps has access to your Twitter account and how you can revoke access from it within one click:
Login to your Twitter account and go to Settings > Connection <Link>
You will see list of all apps which has access to your Twitter account, review all the applications which you are using and click on revoke access which you wish to remove.
This is a small tip but very useful to keep your Twitter account safe and secure. Do let us know what else do you use to keep your Twitter account secure?
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Thats great harsh. Very useful tip.
Recently i heard about hackers attacked social media profiles,your information is very useful to protect our social media profile …
Thanks for sharing the tip, Harsh.
Cool Tip
Can be used in alarming situations
Yes Harsh! I agree Twitter I have stop lots of Application in Twitter account which automate my account which also looks very spammy.
You know what! Once I got surprised to see an ad on my twitter profile. I never used any advertising stuff for my twitter. But dont know how it got there on the app list. Anyways I just revoked the access… But still in a confusion how it crept in! Currently I use only trusted services like Tweetmeme, disqus, facebook, twitterfeed, tweetdeck etc…
that is very good.i want to remove a lot of them
I hope this post helped you …Make sure you don’t forget to remove spammy Twitter apps…
One of these Twitter apps spammed all my new followers with a direct message saying “I laughed so hard when I saw this about you lol **spammy link**” I was so annoyed I revoked access from all apps – I think it was one of the “unfollow” type apps…