Send Twitter DMs On Apps That Won’t Let You With This Trick

Send Twitter DMs On Apps That Won’t Let You With This Trick

Some Twitter clients, like Twitpic, only let you read and compose tweets on your timeline, not offering access to Direct Mentions (DMs). But if you still want to send someone a DM on these services, just use the old SMS code.

Security consultant Egor Homakov wrote about a neat workaround he found to post DMs to friends on Twitpic:

But you know what’s really cool? ANY app can send a DM on behalf of your account, by sending to API “d NAME TEXT”. I just tested with Twitpic, as you can see it doesn’t require any DM permissions.

Homakov also reasons that this is a bug, since an app is supposed to have read and write permissions for DMs, so Twitter might just plug this — but it was working fine when we last checked.

How to send DM on Twitter w/o permission [Egor Homakov]


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