Comments on: Twitter updating Facebook status without permission

By: Lynn

Lynn — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:48:35 +0000

I've had a similar problem on Facebook, but in regards to PhotoBucket uploads. I did share photos out of a PhotoBucket album with my Facebook twice. Not long after the second time I started seeing status updates that I had uploaded a photo to PhotoBucket repeatedly. The problem is that I had not uploaded any photos to either application. Someone else's photo was being set to my Facebook feed with my name on it. I've since bocked/deleted the PhotoBucket application in Facebook and even gone so far as to delete the PhotoBucket account to get rid of all the sharing credentials. Unfortunately, that hasn't worked and the status updates are still happening. I think the security breach is on Facebook.

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By: Janet

Janet — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:54:34 +0000

Thank you very much for all this info, I am still a techno virgin so I have been searching for ages and then found your blog.

Much appreciated.

By: deejayy

deejayy — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 03:17:00 +0000

I like this feature, i often want to discuss my tweets and it is perfect for spreading them ;]

By: Whitney Hess

Whitney Hess — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:20:43 +0000

Oddly enough that actually didn't work for me. Who knows!

By: Norman Huelsman

Norman Huelsman — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:17:40 +0000

I found a way to stop the updates with out unistalling the app in facebook. Go to the app page - http://apps.facebook.com/twitter/. On the top right there is a settings link. If you click there you should see a twitter option.

Once in the settings box I unchecked the box that allowed twitter to update my wall. Seems to have worked.

By: Daniel Szuc

Daniel Szuc — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:46:13 +0000

Thanks Whitney and eek!

By: Joan Vermette

Joan Vermette — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:35:00 +0000

Ah, for the first week or so, the Selective Twitter app was not so great, either – when I appended a tweet w/the #FB hashtag, my Tweets would show up on Facebook w/a link that said “Follow me on Twitter @jayeffvee.”

I don't *want* all my family and all my FB people following me on Twitter; god forbid. So I stopped using Selective Twitter immediately and was all ready to voice my displeasure when that “feature” just all of a sudden went away.

I don't know what happened, but phew! Yay!

By: treypennington

treypennington — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:33:07 +0000

I suspect that we'll find this whole mess has something to do with the Tweet Your Senator campaign. The campaign ran Facebook Ads that when you clicked on the ad, it populated your Twitter Update box with a message to your very own senator (this is from Facebook now, not from the Tweet Your Senator website). I wondered how in the world Facebook knew how to compose a tweet for me from just an ad on Facebook. I knew a Facebook co-founded helped with the presidential campaign. I wonder if he had something to do with this? (It was a very, very cool campaign though.)

By: meredithgould

meredithgould — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:25:40 +0000

I use the selective update app on FB for Twitter tweets and that seems to be working well. Haven't experienced what you have…hope I don't!