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Twitter Spam

18th July 2011 by Mike Rawlins

There seems to have been an increase in Twitter spam over the past week, with people sending out tweets like ‘Is this you in this photo [link]’ or ‘I’m sure this is you in this video [link]’ and ‘Want to make between $3000 & $8000 a month click here [link]’.

The first and most important thing is to not click on the links, even if the tweet comes from someone you know and trust. The second thing is to let the person tweeting the links that they have been sending out spam links.

The safest way to sort out problems with spam tweets is to, login in to Twitter and go to https://twitter.com/settings/applications this page will list all the applications that you have authorised to use your Twitter account.

Review this list and revoke access to anything that you don’t know what it is for or you don’t recognise.

When you have done this go and change your Twitter Password at https://twitter.com/settings/password and this should stop any spam tweets from your account.

Always make sure that the Twitter URL is https so you know it is secure.

Don’t worry if you do revoke access to an application that means something stops working you can always go re-authorise it later.

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Mike Rawlins
I look after the technical side of things at Talk About Local.
Away from Talk About Local I take photos, fly my quadcopter and walk my two Beagles.
If I'm not doing any of the above then you'll find me volunteering at my local RNLI station as a press officer.
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Filed Under: Advice and Guidance, Blog, Other Tools and Tips, Quick Tips Tagged With: Security, spam, tweets, twitter

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  1. SJO'Neill says

    22nd July 2011 at 8:45 am

    You’re a ‘gud un’ – thanks for the tip. Steve (@sjoneill)

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