What do to when your Twitter account is hacked?

Nov 2, 2009 by     452 Comments    Posted under: Featured, Social Media

Monday is always a rough today, no matter what.

But it can get a lot worse if you start getting people on your Twitter timeline complaining that you are sending them Spam.

Here are some quick tips to what you should do if this happens (and not only on a Monday).

1. Don’t PANIC

2. Go to your Twitter web page

3. Click on Setttings

Twitter settings

4. Click on Connections

See all of those shinny icons there? Those are external applications to which you gave access to use your Twitter account. If you don’t recognize some of them just click on “revoke access”. This will disable the ability that those external websites have of sending tweets on your behalf.

5. Click on the password tab and change your password.

6. Close all Twitter apps you might have running (Destroy Twitter, Tweetdeck, etc.)

7. Log out from Twitter (from the webpage)

8. Take a break. You did well.

Full Disclosure: I did not experience any problems with the sites that are showed on this picture. Their presence here is only to exemplify what users will be seeing when they click on the Setttings tab. Objects may appear bigger and closer than they are when seen by a rearview mirror. This post doesn’t fly in the same way that planes do.


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