I have a feeling that I know which app you are talking about - my timeline is also flooded with tweets from that app.
Tom On 8/17/10 8:28 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Yeah, that thing bit me too - I deleted the tweet it sent. There *is* a > warning on the page that it will send the tweet, though. I think the > Twitterverse will jump on him and he'll pull it down. > > -- > M. Edward (Ed) Borasky > http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb > > "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul > Erdos > > > Quoting Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com>: > >> Principle #1 of the Twitter Platform is: "Don't Surprise Users." -- >> And this >> type of activity does exactly that and is therefore against the spirit of >> the developer guidelines. http://dev.twitter.com/api_terms >> >> You can report misbehaving applications at: >> http://twitter.com/help/escalate >> >> Taylor >> >> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Tom van der Woerdt <i...@tvdw.eu> wrote: >> >>> > Is there anything in the terms of use about best practice for auto- >>> > tweeting? >>> Go find out? http://twitter.com/tos >>> >>> > I refer to the irritating practice an app automatically tweeting a >>> > viral message from your account when you authenticate. e.g. "I just >>> > got 50% somethingfactor on somelameapp.com, what's yours?" >>> As far as I know, that is not forbidden, as long as the application >>> explicitly mentions that the application will post a tweet. >>> >>> > It should be against the terms of use to do this without the *minimum* >>> > of a warning message, e.g. "logging in will send a tweet from your >>> > account" - best practice would be an opt-in checkbox or some such UI. >>> Like I said >>> >>> > There needs to be a way for applications to be reported for doing >>> this. >>> I agree. >>> >>> Tom >>> >> > > >
