Did Adam's questions get answered and I miss it?
On May 24, 10:51 am, Adam Fortuna <adamjfort...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Ryan (and everyone else), few questions about the fine details of > this I'd love to get clarification on. > > First and foremost - when do the new TOS go into effect? I see they're > already up on the API TOS page (http://dev.twitter.com/pages/api_terms > ), but would like clarification. We're suddenly in violation now, so > want to see what kind of timeline we have to comply. Are you'll going > to start enforcing this immediately, or do you'll have a set date to > comply with the new TOS by. > > One of the points in the post, the killer line obviously, is "we will > not allow any third party to inject paid tweets into a timeline on any > service that leverages the Twitter API". > Based on that it seems it's still within the rules if a Twitter User > posts an ad themselves to Twitter manually, rather than a 3rd party > doing it? Can you verify if that's a violation or not? > > From the blog post it would seem that is acceptable, but the one line > from the new TOS might negate it: "Tweets may be used in > advertisements, not as advertisements.". > Does this mean that even a tweet posted manually to a users timeline > cannot be an advertisement? In other words, no commerce, whether it's > direct relationship between a Tweeter and an Advertiser, or through an > intermediary (SponsoredTweets, Ad.ly, etc) is a violation -- whether > the 3rd party posts it themselves of the Twitter User does the actual > posting? > > Thanks, hope to get clarification soon, > Adam Fortuna > SponsoredTweetshttp://sponsoredtweets.com
