I come accross to so many malicious Twitter applications and I report them by Twitter forms but that websites changes app name, domain name or IPs and create new one. I know that to create a new app, mobile phone number should be given. But I guess this isn’t adequate.
Every day I take 20-30 mails from customers that they send unauthorized tweets or they make retweets without their information. I tell them to check their Twitter applications page. Then they say that they checked it and they say they don’t have any malicious applications. But when I check their applications, I see that some applications give fake application names. For example:
- Twitter for iPad
- Twitter Web Client M2
- YoruFukurou
When I tell them that these applications are malicious and fake, generally they don’t trust me.
Because an application with “Twitter for iPad” seems so real.
I report these issues, then application becomes suspended. But website owner creates a new application and uses it. Generally they give fake app names.
I can show you an example:
So my suggestion, is it not possible to make users give their applications real names. And/or declare their real website address so users can know authorized application is fake or not ?
