Many services, websites and applications offer the possibility of being able to log in or register either by filling in a form or by using your account on social networks or platforms such as Google, Facebook or Twitter, a way through which it is achieved carry out the process in a much faster way.
Although many people use these accounts to speed up the process, the reality is that this means that other third-party applications are being given permissions so that they can access your account information. For this reason, in this article we are going to explain how to know which applications have access to your Twitter account, and how you can remove the applications with access to your Twitter account and that, therefore, they have access to your information.
Giving other third-party applications permissions means that they can read your tweets, see who you follow, update the profile, access messages and in some cases they can even publish messages on your behalf.
For this reason it is very important to be cautious when giving permissions to other applications, taking care when giving permission to any of them and only doing them to those that are trusted and that really provide additional functionality that is going to be used. However, it is very likely that if you check your Twitter applications you will find different services that you do not really use or that you only used once or twice or that you want to stop using, so then we are going to explain how to remove applications with access to your Twitter account that you don't want to allow.
Before explaining what you must do to know the applications that have access to your Twitter account, we remind you that it is very important that when permission is requested, you take a look at the type of permission they request, if it is read; reading and writing; or reading, writing and direct messages, so that you only give permissions to those that really interest you and knowing what you are exposed to.
How to know the applications that have access to your Twitter account
Whether you connect from your computer's browser or from the Twitter mobile application, the operation is similar and, through both, you will be able to check the applications that have permissions on your account, for which you just have to follow the following steps:
- First you must go to the web browser (or app) of Twitter and log in with your account.
- Once you are in it you must click on Settings and privacy, where you will select the option Account.
- Once you are in it you will have to click on Data and permissions, by clicking on the option Applications and sessions. Below is a list of all the applications that have access to your Twitter profile.
These steps, as we have already mentioned, will serve you both to carry it out through the app and from your computer's browser.
Delete apps with permissions on your Twitter account
From the list of applications that have permissions on the Twitter account you can see the type of permissions that have been given, for which it is enough to click on the desired one and you will be able to see information about it, as well as the permissions of the ones he enjoys. In addition, you will also be able to know the date on which you decided to accept the permissions for that application, so that it will help you to locate yourself when you did it, if it was a short time ago or it has been a long time and you no longer update the app.
From that same place is where you can remove apps with permissions, for which you only have to see how, below the permissions a button called Revoke access.
Just clicking on it will remove the permissions that you had previously granted to that service or application, so that, to use it again, you will have to give it permissions again. Otherwise, you will not have them.
In this sense, it is recommended that, in case of doubt about the applications that have access to your Twitter account, what you can do is revoke access to all of them and, once the services request it again, you grant those apps that really interest you to have access to them, in addition to starting to look more closely at those applications or services that truly are not a danger to your personal information and privacy, which is one of the great problems of can have access to your account.
It is very important to maintain control over privacy and access to social networks, bearing in mind that otherwise, different applications may reach sensitive information about you, which may even put you in the spotlight. of some kind of cybercrime act. This can become a problem, so it is highly recommended that you keep in mind that this aspect is very important in any social network, be it Twitter, Facebook, Instagram….
In this sense, all the main applications on the market have a similar system, so that information can be reached in an intuitive way within the user account of the corresponding social network, so that you can get to know the information. of these applications and revoke the access of those that you consider. However, each social network shows the information in a different way and may not show the same data. In any case, we recommend you take a look at the applications with permissions on all your social networks.
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