Comments on: Twitter updating Facebook status without permission

By: Mr. Twitter

Mr. Twitter — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 01:55:31 +0000

HeHe Twitter must be killing other social websites

By: ATObi

ATObi — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 02:54:58 +0000

You think that is crazy. My CNN account was magically linked to my FB account. They have two completely different email accounts, names and photos and had no intention of linking the two accounts. Well guess what… Not anymore. My FB photo became my CNN account photo. I never authorized that! I tried like hell to disconnect FB from my CNN, but to no avail. Every time I thought I had cut the link I would change my FB photo and my CNN photo would follow even tho it showed that the two accounts were no linked. Can anyone say SHADY AS HELL! I just had to delete my FB account to actually disconnect the link and get my face off my CNN account.

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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Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:30:37 +0000

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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!