{"id":660,"date":"2012-09-13T08:47:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T07:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=660"},"modified":"2012-09-13T08:47:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T07:47:29","slug":"why-i-hate-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/why-i-hate-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I hate Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/deadbird.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-661\" style=\"margin: 5px 15px; border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"deadbird\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/deadbird.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"103\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/deadbird.jpg 287w, https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/deadbird-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 103px) 100vw, 103px\" \/><\/a><strong>Once again, my Twitter account (erictlee) and LabourStart&#8217;s (labourstart) have been hacked, and spam direct messages sent to followers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Twitter&#8217;s advice when this sort of thing happens is to change your password, which I&#8217;ve done, but there&#8217;s another bit of advice worth paying attention to:<\/p>\n<p>Chances are there are many applications that can access one&#8217;s Twitter account, especially if you&#8217;ve been online for a while and have tried new things.  Among the apps that I discovered had access to my Twitter account were the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Klout<\/li>\n<li>Pinterest<\/li>\n<li>About.me<\/li>\n<li>Flipboard<\/li>\n<li>Ning<\/li>\n<li>Linkedin<\/li>\n<li>Act.ly<\/li>\n<li>Posterous<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And several more.<\/p>\n<p>In revoking permission for all these apps, I&#8217;ve locked the barn door as it were. \u00a0I recommend that others also change their Twitter passwords and consider revoking permission especially for apps they don&#8217;t use. \u00a0(Did I ever use Pinterest? \u00a0Or About.me?)<\/p>\n<p>Apologies to all those who got stupid spam direct messages from &#8220;me&#8221; as a result.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, my Twitter account (erictlee) and LabourStart&#8217;s (labourstart) have been hacked, and spam direct messages sent to followers. Twitter&#8217;s advice when this sort of thing happens is to change your password, which I&#8217;ve done,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-exclusive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}