On behalf of the Internet. Thank you. ~e
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Brian Sutorius <bsutor...@twitter.com>wrote: > Hi all, > > Over the past 24 hours, we've received some questions about the > Twifficiency app, so we thought we'd use this as an opportunity to > quickly share some information around our Developer Principles. > > For background, the Twifficiency app computes a "Twifficiency score" > based on different aspects of your Twitter account and posts the score > as a Tweet. While the developer included a disclaimer that these > Tweets would be posted to Twitter, user feedback indicated that the > text was too far down on the page to be noticed before proceeding. As > a result, many users were surprised that their scores were being > tweeted automatically. > > Which brings us to our Developer Principles, one of which is "Don't > surprise users." Specifically, we require developers to get users' > permission before sending Tweets or other messages on their behalf. > Allowing an application to access your account does not constitute > consent for actions to automatically be taken on your behalf. > > Twifficiency violated this principle, so we suspended the app > yesterday afternoon while we worked with the developer to make sure > users were better informed about the application's actions and could > control whether or not a Tweet would be posted. With these changes > --which include a more prominent warning and a checkbox on the main > page-- the application has been re-enabled. > > Our developer principles can be found in our API Terms of Service: > http://dev.twitter.com/pages/api_terms > > Brian Sutorius > API Policy >
