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. David Connors [email protected] | M +61 417 189 363 Download my v-card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors Follow me on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/davidconnors Connect with me on LinkedIn: http://au.linkedin.com/in/davidjohnconnors 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 ? > > >
