I recently had a spree of hack-attacks (or so I thought) via my Twitter account where it was making anonymous spammy tweets. I kept changing my password to no avail. I then realized that it was a service that I had given permissions to a long time ago that had been hacked and the attacker was spamming tweets through my account via that service.
Great service. It's a shame it's necessary. It's an (intentional) failing of UX design that makes it so difficult to know what apps have what permissions on the main social platforms.
I check which apps have Facebook permissions and remove them all the time so 13 didn't surprise me (I wanted those 13 to have permissions). Twitter was more of a surprise with 45 - 41 of which can 'act on my behalf.<p>Edit:<p>Please change the title of this post (at time of writing it is: "92 Facebook Apps Have Access To My Account"). The service checks permissions for around 10 different sites - not just Facebook.
I prefer to prevent - I almost never give access to my account to some application/websites, and prefer the plain old email to create an account somewhere.<p>I've just checked on Facebook, and I have two. A game (that only supported Facebook sign-in, I usually just delete the game if I find that) and a third-party client.<p>Same for Twitter, I just have a bunch of third-party clients.
"Apps" in this context probably means mostly "websites I used 'login with facebook' on".<p>(I would have had a closer look if this wasn't a closed-source download ...)
"Start cleaning : this plug in can access all of your data on all websites tabs and navigation activity."
Kind of ironic.
Pretty useful anyway.
One thing that annoys me, re: permissions - when you signup for a service through Twitter, and the next time you try to login you forget that you used Twitter to sign-up so you click on LinkedIn. And the process continues until you've given permissions for every single social network account you own...
Its really helpful. Apps like "What emotion are you" and "where you will be 10 years from now" have permission to read my messages !. Thanks for opening my eyes !
I tried the android app. Say, I check the permissions of my facebook account by logging in, I didn't find a way (at least a conspicuous one) to logout.<p>And, I didn't find the point of forcing me to create a mypermissions account if I am allowed to login and use the app without me confirming my account via the confirmation mail. I might as well create an account using a fake or someone else's email.
I can see 8 for facebook (two of those are my apps and one is something called "Developer", I guess that's related). Thought it would be more.<p>Four for google if I count various stackoverflows as one. Five for twitter and that's it. Can't even imagine how would one rise to a hundred.
Luckily I manage this on a monthly base. Only 23 on Facebook and none of those can acces information I do not want them to see. Good link though, we need more awareness for third party apps accesing our social media profiles.
Some applications I used as a newcomer to facebook still had access to my profile. And I never knew they still had this much access. Thank you for this link.
This is why Google+ login is more accepted than Facebook and others <a href="http://blog.oauth.io/the-oauth-report-1-social-logins/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.oauth.io/the-oauth-report-1-social-logins/</a>