Every season has its new trend on Twitter. Discover his “Twitter family”, his “Twitter circle”, his “Twitter soul mate” and now… find out how much his Twitter account is worth in euros. A trend that can be fun (for a few microseconds) but, above all, can be dangerous in the long term, since dozens of accesses to unknown sites are accepted.
This new trend “My Twitter is worth” allows you to discover, without any rational explanation about the calculation made, the value in euros of your Twitter account. If for some well-known users the amount can quickly peak, for most Internet users the displayed value is only a few hundred euros.
Tweet, block or follow for you
And to know this amount, you have to connect your Twitter account to a third-party application, here “Any Place Here”. A simple click gets you connected, but a box still offers to know what the app will be able to do with your account once authorization has been accepted.
With this access, the application “Any Place Here” (whose developers are unknown) indicates for example that you will be able to see tweets from your news feed, subscribe to accounts in your place, tweet and delete tweets for you but also hide, block and report accounts without you noticing.
A gold mine, in short. And a real danger for users’ personal data. Because these external applications continue to multiply or be renamed after each alert about the risk of malicious processes.
To go back and avoid any data issues, it is necessary to go to the settings of the Twitter application, in the web or mobile version, to revoke access to these third-party sites.
To do this, simply follow these different steps:
1) Go to “Settings and privacy” after “Security and account access”
2) Click on “Applications and Sessions” after “Connected Apps”
3) You discover all the applications that have access to your account
4) Click on the corresponding application and then on “Revoke app permissions”
Source: BFM TV
