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 or used a rainbow table with. I know
this as a mate of mine (with a fairly secure password) had spammers logging
into his account directly (not via external app) and posting stuff.


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On 5 December 2013 10:17, Wallace Turner <[email protected]> wrote:

>  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:
>
> 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 your
> Twitter password fixes it - also just make sure via Settings and Apps on
> Twitter that there are no erroneous apps installed.
>
>  Good luck,
>
>  Andrew
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From*: "Wallace Turner" <[email protected]><[email protected]>
> *Sent*: Thursday, December 05, 2013 9:18 AM
> *To*: "ozDotNet" <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
> *Subject*: [OT] twitter, something posting on my behalf
>
> 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 ?
>
>
>

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