Beware Of Twitter Scams. Remove Unwanted Applications Access Now
Written by Aneesh Bhatnagar in Twitter - Print This Post
Twitter has also grown to be one of the biggest social networking websites, though it is not yet that Popular with the youth in India, as compared to Facebook, it is still used a lot! Twitter has also become a popular medium for spammers, with all types of scams appearing on it. This time, the scam is named as “Your Online Timer”. It sends the user private messages and of course tweets, which read as follows :
“I have spent 379 days on Twitter. How much have you? Find out here: [LINK]”
The link takes the user to a rogue application, asking you to click on a bit.ly link, which asks the user to authorize the ‘Your Online Timer’ application to access and update his/her Twitter account.
Once you allow the application to connect to your account, it posts tweets on your account saying the this text : “I have spent 379 days on Twitter. How much have you? Find out here: [LINK]” .
Beware of such Scams. In case you have fallen a prey of this Scam, immediately remove the application access from your Twitter account by browsing to Settings -> Connections (Click here).
Remove Unwanted Application Access
#1 - First go to your Twitter account > Settings.
#2 - Now go to Applications. Check whether you have any unwanted or mysterious applications, if you find any, feel free to select “Revoke Access” option.
Do you know of any other Twitter scam? Let everyone know. Share it in the comments section below!
Oh no.. All these days, facebook was spambook.. and now twitter
damn man, i hate these spams. God we need a antivirus specially for Social networking 
Anyhow thanks for info dude.
Thats true that we would need an Anti-Virus for Social Networking sites!
I haven't seen such kind of scam as yet. But I don't use any application in twitter.
Thats nice that you do not use any such application, but maybe you will have to use some applications frequently! So, Just Beware!!
haven't came across anything like this so far
but still i will be careful
thanks for the tips
You are welcome! Hope this helps you stay Malware Free!
Thanks for the warning, we have to be really carefully whenever we go online… even when we are using Facebook and Twitter. But, this "Your Online Timer" thingy looks pretty cute, can't believe it's a scam!
It would be create more awareness to all the twitter user as well
It's really worthy man 
Keep doing 
thanx for this awareness. i didn't know twitter was also turning spam these days. fortunately i dont use unknown applications, even on facebook. i try to keep my account nice and clean.
ohh…..Twitter also spread scams. At present no websites are free from these I guess. Now cautious will be the best medicine to secure from scam
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thx for the information i was facing same issues since last three days and i thougt that these are real pages or links which could provide me relevent information.Could these spams have effect on my twitter account?
You might lose your followers.
I found a scam site its called "spread your tweets" it has deleted all the tweets in my timeline and automatically followed some 50 random people using my account. I don't know how to report about this.. if you know a place report this. Thanks