What is Twitters real stance on auto following? In there API they prohibit "mass following" so what does that mean exactly. More than 1, 100? In my app, I had planned on integrating some meaniful auto following Dale On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Goblin <stu...@abovetheinternet.org> wrote:
> > The question is, are they going to be going after Twitteriffic, > Twitterholic, Twitpic, Twitvid, Twittelator, Twitterena, Twitterfon, > iTwitter etc? > > I admit that I was fair game having the blue birds in the backdrop (as > I say, it was a stupid project that got traction and the new version > is live now anyway), but if Twitter is deciding to take down everyone > with Twit in their name then there are going to be some serious > issues. I know they have to show they are attempting to protect > trademark or risk losing it, but this seems a little heavy handed :( > > On Aug 12, 10:54 am, Andrew Badera <and...@badera.us> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 5:52 AM, Rich<rhyl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I'm not aware of this but this linkhttp:// > blog.twitter.com/2009/07/may-tweets-be-with-you.html, > > > published only last month says > > > > > "We have applied to trademark Tweet because it is clearly attached to > > > Twitter from a brand perspective but we have no intention of "going > > > after" the wonderful applications and services that use the word in > > > their name when associated with Twitter. In fact, we encourage the use > > > of the word Tweet." > > > > Thanks, I'd missed that. I only saw the original, unupdated article > > that brought up the issue on TechCrunch. Great to know. > > > > --ab > -- Dale Merritt Fol.la MeDia, LLC
