The huge success of Twitter and the major scale in which people are taking to it is being hailed as the next best thing in the Internet boom . In fact this very thing has now made searches go real time and news to get completely real time from the source . People are networking like never before , the young and the old alike are embracing twitter like it is bunch of hot cakes . All this is good and heartening .But like all the good things in the world , twitter also has a bunch of bad apples that are budding right under this and flourishing now . These are the so-called incredible twitter apps that claim to do a lot of nifty little things for you on twitter , from getting you followers to automatically looking up interesting news and tweeting it to your followers . But beware , all that glitters is not really gold ! You might actually be letting the proverbial cat out of the bag , quite literally there !
My intention is not meant to alarm the reader into unnecessary panic , but do be aware that when you use twitter to authorize any app for to do something for you , you may actually be inadvertently also allowing a marketer sitting somewhere to tweet for you . Don't believe it ? Look at the response from one of my friends on twitter ( my id was @sakthidharan back then)
I was amazed when I saw that in my @replies , I had no idea what tweet He was talking about ! I did not post anything about 300 followers a day at all ! And I am sure that it is one of the apps that I had authorized which was doing work on my behalf . I immediately went to my settings and unauthorized all the apps and authorized only the ones that I trusted . I then went and deleted the tweet from my timeline , I did not want any more of my followers/friends to think that I posted it .I also changed my twitter password for good measure . After all this I started writing this post .
So here are a few things to remember :
- Follower count is not everything in twitter , never fall for any tweet that gets you huge numbers of followers , they always have a catch
- Ok , a site will get you followers , but is it the followers that you want ?
- Be sure which application you are authorizing on twitter
- The Twitter OAUTH means that this thing can be you for all practical purposes
- Never even CLICK on shady sites that promise fancy things on twitter
- Never give out your twitter passwd unnecessarily , that is a big NO NO
- Keep changing your Twitter password frequently and like twitter says , be tricky !!
- Twitter also monitors accounts tweeting like this and sometimes they get locked out , be careful !
- Make an app earn your trust , inquire about it and then use it , don't just jump at it
- Be Ye Safe , on Twitter and reap the benefits of it
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