According to reports today, it would appear there is a clear and obvious way for any third party Twitter app you have allowed to tweet on your account can actually change your profile information.

Your name, location and URL could be changed by an app using three simple ‘command tweets’. I am sure Twitter will tidy this up pretty quickly but till then you really should go check the apps that have this access to your account.

From your Twitter home page:

1. Go to “Settings” tab.
2. Click on “Connections”.
3. Displayed will be all the third party Twitter apps with access to your account, when you approved them and the type of access each app has (ie: read only, read and write).
4. If there any apps you are not familiar with or no longer use you can remove your permission for an app to have access to your account by clicking the “Revoke Access” link.

If you see any evidence of account tampering please do let us know @Twtr_Gator (once you have told Twitter @safety @support of course.)

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The new Twitter iPhone app is very impressive in its ability and powerful in scope, this feature has the chance to change the way you use technology forever.  This is a definite upgrade from any other Twitter iPhone app as it has fixed what was lost on the previous models.  Here is a brief rundown of the features that are new to the iPhone for Twitter.

• You can now use Twitter on your iPhone without having a Twitter account, it is as simple as that.  Don’t worry about having an account or having to tweet yourself, now just follow the ones that interest you.

• The search function has been reorganized and recharged to give you the most comprehensive options with your Twitter account.  This is where you will find the top tweets, trends and other great options to make your Twitter experience more enjoyable.

• Thanks to a few changes with Tweet rendering your Twitter account should look just as it does on Twitter.  This is a big change that has excited many a tweeter over the recent past.

You can check out the full details and download the new official Twitter iPhone app in the app store.

Which Twitter iPhone app have you used, what is the best and the worst points? Let us know in the comments below.

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GeoTweeter takes the already common practice of using Twitter to inform your friends of your current location, but adds one hugely significant feature…
It actually shows them how to get to you!

How often do you see folks using Twitter to invite their friends out for a coffee?
Normally with a tweet something like “I’m at Costa! Come join me!”.
But which Costa do they mean?
The one on the High Street or that new one by.. hang on, where’s that other one again?
Now you got to go through Google Maps looking for a costa coffee shop and writing down the address.
Worst still you are going to have to rely on archaic technology and use your phone to actually call your friend to check you’re heading to the right place.

GeoTweeter will take away all of those extra steps for you by pulling all the information needed to meet up with some one into one, simple Twitter iPhone application.
When you want to have invite your friends to join you for a night on the town (or for whatever other reason you may want to broadcast your exact location via Twitter), you just open GeoTweeter and blast out your tweet.
GeoTweet will create a schmap.me map pointing at your current GPS location (or any other location you choose) then and add the URL of the map onto the end of your tweet.

These maps are viewable from just about any browser, with special optimizations for BlackBerry, Nokia, Palm, Sony Ericsson, and of course the iPhone.
On some of these platforms, tapping the address on the page will automatically launch the handset’s built-in mapping software, allowing you to navigate to the location without copy and paste or the so out dated, pen and paper.

I love the fact you can also store your regular locations for quick use later, helps hugely if you are inviting people down the local for a “quick” drink regularly.

For added fun or to entice your freinds to join you, you can also include a photo of your current location.

You will still need another Twitter application on your iPhone for general use.
But this makes perfect sense. After all, you don’t always want to be broadcasting your location with every tweet, so you won’t be using GeoTweeter every time anyway.

One thing to watch out for with GeoTweeter is there is no character counter to let you know how many characters you can use before you run out of Tweet space.

Remember; The URL takes up 23 of your 140 characters and the input box will not let you go past the limit (set at 117), but it would handy to have a visual counter for the sake of planning ahead.

Schmap have used all their ingenuity to increase the use of and build upon their Schmap.me service,
GeoTweeter is a genuinely useful service that doesn’t seem tacked on at all.

This is exactly the kind of awesome Twitter iPhone app I love most, yes it’s fun to use, but more importantly it really does an awesome job of helping you connect and interact with other people.
Well done Schmap!

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