How to solve the twitter spam

Posted by Arvid on February 25, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

In the last couple of days a lot of people have been receiving DM-messages on twitter that show a message like: “that’s you”. The message also contains a link to a website. When you click the link, the website will ask you to fill in your username/password. By doing that, they just gained access to your twitter-account and will be able to send DM-messages to your contains. They do not put a virus on your PC/Mac but are just using your account details on twitter to send the DM-messages. So how to solve this;

  1. Never click on links you don’t trust, either in DM or a normal tweet!
  2. Ensure that your email address is still listed in twitter (in the event you would have to reset your pwd)
  3. Change your password (you gave it to them! If you use the same password for more services, change them everywhere)
  4. Revoke the access of all connections that are setup on the connections-tab in twitter

Good to know; all applications that you have sent up that use oAuth will require to be set up again as you have just revokes their access.

All should be fine now. It is always wise to have a look at your sent-DMs as you will see that they sent messages on your behalf.

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