Re: [OT] twitter, something posting on my behalf

2013-12-04 Thread David Connors
If you've granted access you need to revoke the application oauth key - not change your password. Go here: https://twitter.com/settings/applications And revoke anything you don't reconise. That said, Twitter lost a whole bunch of hashed passwords a while back which someone successfully computed

Re: [OT] twitter, something posting on my behalf

2013-12-04 Thread Wallace Turner
thanks, ive done those two already. >You've inadvertently clicked on a link somewhere that has captured your Twitter authentication token Could you elaborate on that process? I didnt think that was possible with a modern browser (Chrome 31 for me) On 5/12/2013 8:12 AM, Andrew McGrath wrote:

re: [OT] twitter, something posting on my behalf

2013-12-04 Thread Andrew McGrath
You probably need to change your Twitter password. You've inadvertently clicked on a link somewhere that has captured your Twitter authentication token or even password and that is being used by some bot to send tweets on your behalf. That's a roundabout description for it - pretty sure changing

[OT] twitter, something posting on my behalf

2013-12-04 Thread Wallace Turner
i am a twitter noob and this morning while scrolling thru I noticed I had apparently tweeted the below: https://twitter.com/walturner (the link is to a weight loss program) How did this happen ?