Over the past few days, a number of our followers and followees on Twitter have been caught in a large spamming crowd that is currently running through ‘Direct Messages’ (private messaging on the social networking site). We’ve put together this quick guide of what to do if you’ve been told you sent some spam!
NOW Bath works a lot through Twitter, and we don’t want our followers unhappy or leaving Twitter because of all the dodgy links people have been inadvertently sending each other. So if you follow the steps below, you should be able to resolve any problems.
You may have had a DM with a link in from a friend, and to you, it might look innocent enough to click on. If you click on that link it will ask you to log in with Twitter to ‘see the photo’ and that’s when you handed over the ability for that spamming app to send tweets on your Twitter account.
How to Fix a Hacked Twitter Account
Step 1 | Log into Twitter.com
Step 2 | Go to your settings
Step 3 | Revoke access of any apps that look a bit strange and you aren’t sure of. If you accidentally revoke access to something you need, you can always give access again through that website/desktop application. If in doubt; revoke access. These app permissions are the reason your Twitter account was hacked. You gave a spamming app access to your Twitter account and it was posting bogus tweets to your followers. Now it’s nothing to worry about, let’s just remove it before it does any more spamming!
Step 4 | Change your Twitter password. This can help in case any of the bad apps have stored it.
Step 5 | Try and not get your Twitter hacked again. When you use Twitter as a login on some site you may be giving the site permission to post to your Twitter account so be sure to make sure it is a legitimate site.