92 Facebook Apps Have Access To My Account

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&#x27;t surprise me (I wanted those 13 to have permissions). Twitter was more of a surprise with 45 - 41 of which can &#x27;act on my behalf.<p>Edit:<p>Please change the title of this post (at time of writing it is: &quot;92 Facebook Apps Have Access To My Account&quot;). 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&#x2F;websites, and prefer the plain old email to create an account somewhere.<p>I&#x27;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.

&quot;Apps&quot; in this context probably means mostly &quot;websites I used &#x27;login with facebook&#x27; on&quot;.<p>(I would have had a closer look if this wasn&#x27;t a closed-source download ...)

&quot;Start cleaning : this plug in can access all of your data on all websites tabs and navigation activity.&quot; Kind of ironic. Pretty useful anyway.

The irony of this thing asking to post on fb&#x2F;twitter then create yet another login is not lost on me.

&quot;The author of this addon has not been verified&quot;<p>How ironic

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&#x27;ve given permissions for every single social network account you own...

Its really helpful. Apps like &quot;What emotion are you&quot; and &quot;where you will be 10 years from now&quot; have permission to read my messages !. Thanks for opening my eyes !

0 have access to my facebook, how disappointingly satisfying.

I tried the android app. Say, I check the permissions of my facebook account by logging in, I didn&#x27;t find a way (at least a conspicuous one) to logout.<p>And, I didn&#x27;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&#x27;s email.

This is pretty shocking. I found out that 4 apps can access my inbox! I&#x27;ve removed all of them except for the gmail iOS app.

I can see 8 for facebook (two of those are my apps and one is something called &quot;Developer&quot;, I guess that&#x27;s related). Thought it would be more.<p>Four for google if I count various stackoverflows as one. Five for twitter and that&#x27;s it. Can&#x27;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.

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Cleanup your social media apps? How about delete your Facebook account to start 2014. Facebook is so 2010... I deleted my account years ago.

What is Facebook?<p>On another note I have 132 text files with passwords in. The whole security thing isn&#x27;t going to get easier.

Aren&#x27;t most of these &quot;Facebook Apps&quot; just using Facebook for easier account creation &#x2F; login?

Only 34 but I decided I might spring clean and removed 8 of those that I don&#x27;t need anymore :)

Holy guacamole - 110 applications have access to my facebook account. ...removing...

I would love to see some stats from mypermissions.org on people&#x27;s permissions

Some of the Google ones are ambiguous or duplicated.<p>I revoked everything anyway.

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:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.oauth.io&#x2F;the-oauth-report-1-social-logins&#x2F;</a>

Anyone else deleted all of them?

Is it reliable?