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I use a Nexus 5 but recently I got a notification from MyPermissions [0] saying "Twitter for iPhone gained access to certain permissions." I checked it and it said it had rights to post on my behalf. I quickly removed all permissions as this was rather suspicious. I would recommend doing the same.

[0] http://mypermissions.com/

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Have you ever owned an iPhone and installed the Twitter app? If not, have you ever installed a Twitter app on your Nexus?

If Twitter used the same app token for iPhone and Nexus twitter apps, and your Nexus twitter auth cred was stolen, they could use an implementation of the twitter client API with the iPhone user-agent, then post with your creds. I have absolutely no idea if any of that is accurate, but it might explain the access.

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