I run a twitter account that posts deals for video games. Our followers often tweet us asking for the best price a game is available for, and we've found a way to automatically recognise when we're asking us for a price, to fetch that low price from our servers, and send it to the user along with a link to our website. (That link provides the user with more information about the game, as well as prices from other retailers.)
A typical exchange would be like this: User: @ouraccount hi, can you find me the cheapest price for halo reach? Us: @theiraccount Halo Reach (360) is available for $39.99 from GameStop <link to our site> As far as I can tell from the twitter automation rules, this is acceptable automation because: 1) It's solicited by the user, we only reply to that one user when they specifically ask us for a price. 2) We're providing a link to an information page about the game on our web site, not an affiliate link. That said, we want to make 100% sure that we're not breaking any rules by doing this. Any feedback would be much appreciated. :-) -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
