Friday 22 July 2011

Has your twitter account been hacked?

If I've sent you to this post, let me first start off by saying you're a cunt. You've clearly clicked on a link and given authority to a dodgy application without thinking what you're doing. So you're a cunt.

When people point this out, you will invariably rush back to Twitter and change your password, because not only are you a cunt, but you're a stupid cunt. Stupid because changing your password will do nothing to stop someone accessing your twitter because Twitter has an authorisation mechanism that persists beyond password changes. But that won't mean anything to you, because you're a stupid cunt.

So instead, here's how you actually fix it (in "new" twitter):

  1. Log in to your Twitter webpage
  2. On the top right of your page will be your name. Click on it.
  3. Choose "Settings" from the menu that appears.
  4. Click on Applications.
  5. Click the "Revoke Access" on all applications you don't use all the time. It's quite possible that the naughty application will be the first in the list, but not a given.


In "old" Twitter:

  1. Log in to your Twitter webpage
  2. Click "Settings".
  3. Click on Applications.
  4. Click the "Revoke Access" on all applications you don't use all the time. It's quite possible that the naughty application will be the first in the list, but not a given.

The problem should now be gone.

PS You're still a cunt.

3 comments:

Quiet_Man said...

What's twitter? ;-)

sixtypoundsaweekcleaner said...

Love you too.

xxx

P.S. What do you want for tea, tonight?

Anonymous said...

I haven't got a Twitter account.

So I guess that makes you a cunt.