There are other applications already deployed that let you do things like control your computer via Twitter, and I haven't heard any complaining about them with regard to TOS.
I have a second Twitter account that I use for testing my application, and I'm not aware of any TOS provision that prohibits this. On Aug 28, 12:24 am, "Peter J. Walsh" <xor.g...@gmail.com> wrote: > tl;dr: I'm a hobbyist programmer writing an application that passes > data to/from devices using twitter, and was wondering if this would be > a violation of the TOS? > > or if you prefer, the longer version: > > I'm a hobbyist programmer writing an application. An application that > controls other applications on a host by receiving data sent to > twitter from a remote device such as a cell phone. It's not very far > along, so far the only thing it can do is query the status of uTorrent > at the request of the remote device and return it through direct > messaging, and add torrents passed through a direct message. I was > wondering if this portion would constitute spam? > > The application also requires a person to have two accounts, one for > themselves, and one for the application. As a hobbyist programmer I > don't really spread my applications around, just to a few people to > help test them. So far this particular application has only been sent > to one other person. So I was wondering also if this creation of two > accounts would cause issues? If this would cause issues, I could > rewrite the application to only need one account for all it's users, > but this would hinder it's adoption of other applications that don't > support a HTTP interface. > > Of course if any of these things would cause any issues I would be > more than willing to discontinue development.
