What is Twitter OAuth Approval

As discussed above, you may post manually-approved, compensated tweets through a third-party application with Twitter OAuth approval. If an application has OAuth approval, the following will be true

1. You allow the application access by approving their connection, not by giving out your username and password.
2. Once approved, you’ll be able to see and revoke the connection from your connections tab.

When Tweets come from a third-party application, the name of the source is included to the right of the time-stamp, like this:

Updates posted using the general API without Twitter OAuth will instead say "from API” as the source. We do not allow advertising posted through general API applications. If you find your account posting ads such as these, please change your password and revoke unwanted connections. You can find more information, and a technical walk-through for allowing and revoking API access, the help page on Connecting to Third-Party Applications.