RE: [twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-26 Thread Dean Collins
Dewald, it's because you have amateurs running the zoo that are learning as they go. Honestly my opinion is that it's Twitters rights to change the rules as they go - it's their network and their right to do so, but it's also my right as an investor in application development to not invest any

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-26 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hello Everyone, We recently updated our Advertising FAQ to answer many of the questions that you may have. http://bit.ly/twitter-ad-faq Taylor On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Liz nwjersey...@gmail.com wrote: I hope some answers are forthcoming, James. Twitter doesn't seem very talkative.

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-26 Thread Taylor Singletary
If you have specific questions about the policy, we have an email address you can send them to: twitter_...@twitter.com I unfortunately don't have answers for you beyond what's presented in the FAQ and the Terms of Service. Taylor On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Dewald Pretorius

RE: [twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-26 Thread Dean Collins
] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING Hello Everyone, We recently updated our Advertising FAQ to answer many of the questions that you may have. http://bit.ly/twitter-ad-faq Taylor On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Liz nwjersey...@gmail.com wrote: I hope some answers are forthcoming

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-26 Thread Taylor Singletary
Dewald: I'll make that recommendation; I agree that relevant information should be grouped together as much as possible. Dean: The link to the support center FAQ on this topic is very clumsy and long; there are still a number of email clients out there that don't handle long links very well,

RE: [twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-25 Thread mycroftt
I stopped development on my Twitter appa year after realizing that the twitter API was not yet stable enough to allow an individual developer to create a stable product. I continue to follow the exchange between developers and Twitter as much for entertainment as to keep track. Twitter understands

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-25 Thread Dossy Shiobara
So, Tweetie for Mac, which shows an ad at the top of my friends timeline ... will no longer be allowed to do so? http://i.imgur.com/pazT3.png Is this another misinterpretation of the policy, too? On 5/25/10 1:28 AM, Ryan Sarver wrote: It *does prohibit* an application from calling out to a

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-25 Thread Nick Arnett
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:16 AM, mycro...@lifewithindustry.com wrote: I stopped development on my Twitter app a year after realizing that the twitter API was not yet stable enough to allow an individual developer to create a stable product. I continue to follow the exchange between

RE: [twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-25 Thread Steel Sendras Group
[mailto:twitter-development-t...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of mycro...@lifewithindustry.com Sent: Tuesday, 25 May, 2010 4:46 pm To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Subject: RE: [twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING I stopped development on my Twitter app a year after

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-24 Thread Peter Denton
I want to voice support of this decision. I build third party apps that are 100% about consuming, purposing, and displaying tweet streams. If different clients inevitably begin selling tweet injections, I really don't want to deal with those on my end. The tweet stream should remain a pure data

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-24 Thread Lil Peck
Does this mean that any tweet that promotes any event or item that is not free (Such as, Tickets to the 2011 National Finals Rodeo go on sale tomorrow.) violates the TOS?

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-24 Thread Lil Peck
On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Liz nwjersey...@gmail.com wrote: And users own their own tweets. and allow adult-oriented content and photos but for some reason, users can't Tweet ads. That sounds like control of content to me. Amen

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-24 Thread Harshad RJ
As I interpret it they don't want clients to inject ads in the stream at the display end. Not at the posting end. On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Lil Peck lilp...@gmail.com wrote: Does this mean that any tweet that promotes any event or item that is not free (Such as, Tickets to the 2011

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-24 Thread Ryan Sarver
I want to make sure this part is clear -- this policy change isn't meant to say that we are going to start policing if the content of something a user tweets is an ad or not. The policy change affects 3rd party services that were putting ads in the middle of a timeline. So if Liz is paid by

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: TWITTER BANS 3rd PARTY ADVERTISING

2010-05-24 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Quoting Ryan Sarver rsar...@twitter.com: I want to make sure this part is clear -- this policy change isn't meant to say that we are going to start policing if the content of something a user tweets is an ad or not. The policy change affects 3rd party services that were putting ads in the