Gleam and your twitter accounts

crazy-cat-lady_2

Sorry if this has been mentioned before. I wondered what people do about the gleam comps when it wants to link with your twitter accounts. It says it can access your account and information, read and post..

Do people avoid these competitions or allow it to access your accounts? I don't know if i'm being paranoid for no reason, but i haven't allowed it yet and tend to close the page and ditch the competition.

jsol

it has to post as it posts on your behalf when you click 'tweet this' i have no issues about it.

crazy-cat-lady_2

Arg. That makes sense. It's me being an idiot then and thinking random posts will appear in my account as if they're from me, and not competition posts. I read it completely wrong this whole time. Oops.

mjm3346

crazy-cat-lady wrote: »

Arg. That makes sense. It's me being an idiot then and thinking random posts will appear in my account as if they're from me, and not competition posts. I read it completely wrong this whole time. Oops.

Although you might intend it to be for competitions you are granting access for it to post anything on your behalf (however unlikely it may be that they do so). Some apps are worse and want to follow people as well as post for you.

Marg2k8

If you go to your twitter account and look at your settings, you can see all of the apps that you have allowed to have access and revoke any that you wish to revoke, so it may be worth doing this from time to time.

crazy-cat-lady_2

Thanks. I'll be doing that. Besides comping I don't really use Twitter, so know very little about it compared to Facebook.

skintpaul

some comps i have seen 'allow' a twitter a/c to sign on, but the still want all contact info.. rather defeats the object!

I clear all linked apps, after entering via twitter, just for my own peace of mind..