[twitter-dev] Auto tweeting - guidelines and reporting bad practice
Is there anything in the terms of use about best practice for auto- tweeting? I refer to the irritating practice an app automatically tweeting a viral message from your account when you authenticate. e.g. I just got 50% somethingfactor on somelameapp.com, what's yours? It should be against the terms of use to do this without the *minimum* of a warning message, e.g. logging in will send a tweet from your account - best practice would be an opt-in checkbox or some such UI. There needs to be a way for applications to be reported for doing this.
Re: [twitter-dev] Auto tweeting - guidelines and reporting bad practice
Is there anything in the terms of use about best practice for auto- tweeting? Go find out? http://twitter.com/tos I refer to the irritating practice an app automatically tweeting a viral message from your account when you authenticate. e.g. I just got 50% somethingfactor on somelameapp.com, what's yours? As far as I know, that is not forbidden, as long as the application explicitly mentions that the application will post a tweet. It should be against the terms of use to do this without the *minimum* of a warning message, e.g. logging in will send a tweet from your account - best practice would be an opt-in checkbox or some such UI. Like I said There needs to be a way for applications to be reported for doing this. I agree. Tom
Re: [twitter-dev] Auto tweeting - guidelines and reporting bad practice
Principle #1 of the Twitter Platform is: Don't Surprise Users. -- And this type of activity does exactly that and is therefore against the spirit of the developer guidelines. http://dev.twitter.com/api_terms You can report misbehaving applications at: http://twitter.com/help/escalate Taylor On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: Is there anything in the terms of use about best practice for auto- tweeting? Go find out? http://twitter.com/tos I refer to the irritating practice an app automatically tweeting a viral message from your account when you authenticate. e.g. I just got 50% somethingfactor on somelameapp.com, what's yours? As far as I know, that is not forbidden, as long as the application explicitly mentions that the application will post a tweet. It should be against the terms of use to do this without the *minimum* of a warning message, e.g. logging in will send a tweet from your account - best practice would be an opt-in checkbox or some such UI. Like I said There needs to be a way for applications to be reported for doing this. I agree. Tom
Re: [twitter-dev] Auto tweeting - guidelines and reporting bad practice
Yeah, that thing bit me too - I deleted the tweet it sent. There *is* a warning on the page that it will send the tweet, though. I think the Twitterverse will jump on him and he'll pull it down. -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Quoting Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com: Principle #1 of the Twitter Platform is: Don't Surprise Users. -- And this type of activity does exactly that and is therefore against the spirit of the developer guidelines. http://dev.twitter.com/api_terms You can report misbehaving applications at: http://twitter.com/help/escalate Taylor On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: Is there anything in the terms of use about best practice for auto- tweeting? Go find out? http://twitter.com/tos I refer to the irritating practice an app automatically tweeting a viral message from your account when you authenticate. e.g. I just got 50% somethingfactor on somelameapp.com, what's yours? As far as I know, that is not forbidden, as long as the application explicitly mentions that the application will post a tweet. It should be against the terms of use to do this without the *minimum* of a warning message, e.g. logging in will send a tweet from your account - best practice would be an opt-in checkbox or some such UI. Like I said There needs to be a way for applications to be reported for doing this. I agree. Tom
Re: [twitter-dev] Auto tweeting - guidelines and reporting bad practice
I have a feeling that I know which app you are talking about - my timeline is also flooded with tweets from that app. Tom On 8/17/10 8:28 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: Yeah, that thing bit me too - I deleted the tweet it sent. There *is* a warning on the page that it will send the tweet, though. I think the Twitterverse will jump on him and he'll pull it down. -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Quoting Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com: Principle #1 of the Twitter Platform is: Don't Surprise Users. -- And this type of activity does exactly that and is therefore against the spirit of the developer guidelines. http://dev.twitter.com/api_terms You can report misbehaving applications at: http://twitter.com/help/escalate Taylor On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: Is there anything in the terms of use about best practice for auto- tweeting? Go find out? http://twitter.com/tos I refer to the irritating practice an app automatically tweeting a viral message from your account when you authenticate. e.g. I just got 50% somethingfactor on somelameapp.com, what's yours? As far as I know, that is not forbidden, as long as the application explicitly mentions that the application will post a tweet. It should be against the terms of use to do this without the *minimum* of a warning message, e.g. logging in will send a tweet from your account - best practice would be an opt-in checkbox or some such UI. Like I said There needs to be a way for applications to be reported for doing this. I agree. Tom
Re: [twitter-dev] Auto tweeting - guidelines and reporting bad practice
I'm seriously considering a blog post about it - someone talk me out of it! -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Quoting Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu: I have a feeling that I know which app you are talking about - my timeline is also flooded with tweets from that app. Tom On 8/17/10 8:28 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: Yeah, that thing bit me too - I deleted the tweet it sent. There *is* a warning on the page that it will send the tweet, though. I think the Twitterverse will jump on him and he'll pull it down. -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Quoting Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com: Principle #1 of the Twitter Platform is: Don't Surprise Users. -- And this type of activity does exactly that and is therefore against the spirit of the developer guidelines. http://dev.twitter.com/api_terms You can report misbehaving applications at: http://twitter.com/help/escalate Taylor On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: Is there anything in the terms of use about best practice for auto- tweeting? Go find out? http://twitter.com/tos I refer to the irritating practice an app automatically tweeting a viral message from your account when you authenticate. e.g. I just got 50% somethingfactor on somelameapp.com, what's yours? As far as I know, that is not forbidden, as long as the application explicitly mentions that the application will post a tweet. It should be against the terms of use to do this without the *minimum* of a warning message, e.g. logging in will send a tweet from your account - best practice would be an opt-in checkbox or some such UI. Like I said There needs to be a way for applications to be reported for doing this. I agree. Tom
Re: [twitter-dev] Auto tweeting - guidelines and reporting bad practice
Do it, do it, do it! teehee! On 17 Aug 2010, at 19:42, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: I'm seriously considering a blog post about it - someone talk me out of it! -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Quoting Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu: I have a feeling that I know which app you are talking about - my timeline is also flooded with tweets from that app. Tom On 8/17/10 8:28 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: Yeah, that thing bit me too - I deleted the tweet it sent. There *is* a warning on the page that it will send the tweet, though. I think the Twitterverse will jump on him and he'll pull it down. -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Quoting Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com: Principle #1 of the Twitter Platform is: Don't Surprise Users. -- And this type of activity does exactly that and is therefore against the spirit of the developer guidelines. http://dev.twitter.com/api_terms You can report misbehaving applications at: http://twitter.com/help/escalate Taylor On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: Is there anything in the terms of use about best practice for auto- tweeting? Go find out? http://twitter.com/tos I refer to the irritating practice an app automatically tweeting a viral message from your account when you authenticate. e.g. I just got 50% somethingfactor on somelameapp.com, what's yours? As far as I know, that is not forbidden, as long as the application explicitly mentions that the application will post a tweet. It should be against the terms of use to do this without the *minimum* of a warning message, e.g. logging in will send a tweet from your account - best practice would be an opt-in checkbox or some such UI. Like I said There needs to be a way for applications to be reported for doing this. I agree. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: [twitter-dev] Auto tweeting - guidelines and reporting bad practice
I'm in the middle of a release push for the Social Media Analytics Research Toolkit. If the thing is still around when I get that done, I'll take up cudgels and pitchforks and torches, assuming RWW, Mashable and Techcrunch haven't ground it into the soil by then. ;-) -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Quoting Scott Wilcox sc...@dor.ky: Do it, do it, do it! teehee! On 17 Aug 2010, at 19:42, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: I'm seriously considering a blog post about it - someone talk me out of it! -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Quoting Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu: I have a feeling that I know which app you are talking about - my timeline is also flooded with tweets from that app. Tom On 8/17/10 8:28 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: Yeah, that thing bit me too - I deleted the tweet it sent. There *is* a warning on the page that it will send the tweet, though. I think the Twitterverse will jump on him and he'll pull it down. -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Quoting Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com: Principle #1 of the Twitter Platform is: Don't Surprise Users. -- And this type of activity does exactly that and is therefore against the spirit of the developer guidelines. http://dev.twitter.com/api_terms You can report misbehaving applications at: http://twitter.com/help/escalate Taylor On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Tom van der Woerdt i...@tvdw.eu wrote: Is there anything in the terms of use about best practice for auto- tweeting? Go find out? http://twitter.com/tos I refer to the irritating practice an app automatically tweeting a viral message from your account when you authenticate. e.g. I just got 50% somethingfactor on somelameapp.com, what's yours? As far as I know, that is not forbidden, as long as the application explicitly mentions that the application will post a tweet. It should be against the terms of use to do this without the *minimum* of a warning message, e.g. logging in will send a tweet from your account - best practice would be an opt-in checkbox or some such UI. Like I said There needs to be a way for applications to be reported for doing this. I agree.
