Re: [twitter-dev] Opt-in App

2011-05-17 Thread Caliban Darklock
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:20 AM, Taylor Singletary taylorsinglet...@twitter.com wrote: I'm curious what you mean by an opt-in app on your home page in Twitter? I suspect the question is about a mailing list opt-in form installed on the Twitter home page, e.g. for an autoresponder service like

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: consistency and ecosystem opportunities

2011-03-17 Thread Caliban Darklock
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: Would you mind taking a stab at clarifying Section 5.E of the new TOS, which reads, You may not use Twitter Content or other data collected from end users of your Client to create or maintain a separate status update or

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Can our twitter app call /oauth/revoke?

2010-04-21 Thread Caliban Darklock
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Abraham Williams 4bra...@gmail.com wrote: If they light bulb had no cost (such as electricity) and automatically turns on when needed why would you turn the light switch off? Because the light bulb comes on when you would like it to stay off, obviously. We

Re: [twitter-dev] entirely indecent conduct from a user

2010-03-21 Thread Caliban Darklock
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 4:07 PM, neal rauhauser nrauhau...@gmail.com wrote:  What does it take to get this nitwit removed? Shockingly enough, to the best of my ability to discern, this person is not violating any of Twitter's rules or terms of service. I rather like that. Freedom of speech is

Re: [twitter-dev] entirely indecent conduct from a user

2010-03-21 Thread Caliban Darklock
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: Chances are now that it's a visible issue, they'll block it. I'm betting if they do, it will be for an unrelated reason. See, people who say these things tend to be all KINDS of unsavoury. If I had access to this guy's PM

Re: [twitter-dev] entirely indecent conduct from a user

2010-03-21 Thread Caliban Darklock
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: You know what they say about assuming, right? I'm not sure. Perhaps you can explain how it applies to this example: They'll ban an account that's borderline 1st amendment without a second thought To unsubscribe from this

Re: [twitter-dev] entirely indecent conduct from a user

2010-03-21 Thread Caliban Darklock
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: Assumptions are without historical evidence to constitute your guess. Mine's not. Neither is mine. They got Al Capone on tax evasion, remember? Most people who are skating right up to the line are going over it somewhere

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: It's been three months since the truncation change.... can't the docs be updated?

2010-02-03 Thread Caliban Darklock
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Jeffrey Friedl jfri...@gmail.com wrote: Not doing so is just another way you show that you have no respect for third-party developers, essentially telling them to get lost. I find it terribly ironic when people complain that it is somehow contempt when a company

[twitter-dev] Re: تم افتتاح منتدى العجمى سوفت زيارتك ش رف لنا

2009-09-21 Thread Caliban Darklock
2009/9/20 Nalin Savara nsn...@gmail.com: Tell me: what would your response implying death to spammer achieve.. Which a 'thread locked and sender blocked ' response would not achieve It's amusing. Granted, it's neither mature nor serious to snicker behind your hand at a snide remark, but it's

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitpocalypse II Update - Scheduled for Tuesday 9/22 at 11:30am PST

2009-09-21 Thread Caliban Darklock
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 1:42 PM, JDG ghil...@gmail.com wrote: Why wouldn't said developer partners have updated their code 2 weeks ago when this was announced? Three reasons. A. Irresponsibility. Paying no attention to anything, they have no clue this is happening and indeed will not even

[twitter-dev] Re: تم افتتاح منتدى العجمى سوفت زيارتك ش رف لنا

2009-09-20 Thread Caliban Darklock
2009/9/19 Nalin Savara nsn...@gmail.com: That's true about spam.. But the message 'you do suck at.. ' is disgusting and offensive.. And apart from the spammer, even that poster should be banned and blacklisted. If we banned and blacklisted everything disgusting and offensive, there would be

[twitter-dev] Re: Fun140 and Truetwit developers

2009-08-02 Thread Caliban Darklock
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Andrew Baderaand...@badera.us wrote: TrueTwit is the most valuable, useful, awesome Twitter third-party app I've seen in months. Maybe ever. I particularly love how all you have to do is see one TrueTwit DM, go sign up for TrueTwit yourself, and stop getting

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Application Usage Guidelines, Please Read

2009-06-11 Thread Caliban Darklock
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:52 AM, Abraham Williams4bra...@gmail.com wrote: How would the CoH be social enforced? I think there's already social enforcement. You can d spam @whoever or just @spam @whoever to make your report. Developers of desktop clients might consider making a little macro

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Developer/Founder Community on Ning - Registration Open

2009-06-11 Thread Caliban Darklock
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Abraham Williams4bra...@gmail.com wrote: Hey! I have an idea! Lets have  tea party! In Boston!

[twitter-dev] Re: Follow Limits - a Discussion

2009-06-10 Thread Caliban Darklock
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:49 AM, Jesse Stayjesses...@gmail.com wrote: Honestly, I can't see any legitimate reason for doing a search for people to follow and following more than 200 of those people in a day, other than collecting spam lists or trying to build up following numbers, reducing

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Application Usage Guidelines, Please Read

2009-06-10 Thread Caliban Darklock
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Andrew Baderaand...@badera.us wrote: You should look up the definition of ghetto sometime. According to Wikipedia, it's a portion of a city in which members of a minority group live; especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure - and a minority

[twitter-dev] Re: Follow Limits - a Discussion

2009-06-10 Thread Caliban Darklock
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Jesse Stayjesses...@gmail.com wrote: Caliban I agree - I'm simply proposing that my solution for follow limits is at least a little better for users than what Twitter is currently doing. What is being done currently hurts the legitimate users more than it

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Application Usage Guidelines, Please Read

2009-06-10 Thread Caliban Darklock
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:23 AM, Dossy Shiobarado...@panoptic.com wrote: It's obviously an incredibly thin line ... It's the same line you walk as a marketer. On the one hand, you want to provide value to your followers, so they will keep following you. On the other, you want to extract value

[twitter-dev] Re: Twitter Application Usage Guidelines, Please Read

2009-06-09 Thread Caliban Darklock
On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Brantbtedes...@gmail.com wrote: Williams, my point is why would a user need to rapidly remove or add twitter followers? Turn that around: why should a user be FORBIDDEN to rapidly remove or add new followers?

[twitter-dev] Re: Larger Users Not Returning Follower Data

2009-06-04 Thread Caliban Darklock
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: We are aware that many users would like to accept all incoming directs. Sounds like a checkbox in your profile to me.