Arnaud, That's comforting to know. With that being the case, can you please enlighten us as to why Twitter is apparently violating its own rules, which, as you said, are still in force and we all still are apparently expected to adhere to?
Let me help you and quote from your rules the appropriate text: "If you are automatically sending @reply messages or Mentions to a bunch of users, the recipients must request or approve this action in advance." Have any of the users targeted by @twittersuggests, which is sending automated @reply messages "to a bunch of users", explicitly requested or approved this action in advance? If not, then you may have de facto invalidated that section of your rules and by implication exempted all developers and applications from it. On May 5, 12:45 pm, Arnaud Meunier <arn...@twitter.com> wrote: > Hey Dewald, > > Neither our TOS nor our Automation Rules & Best Practices > (http://support.twitter.com/articles/76915) have changed since the launch > of @twittersuggests experimental feature :) > > Arnaud / @rno <http://twitter.com/rno> > > > > > > > > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:00 AM, TjL <luo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > With reference to @twittersuggests, is other unsolicited @reply spam > > > now also officially sanctioned by Twitter? > > > When has Twitter ever given you the idea that they were playing by the > > same rules as everyone else? > > > -- > > 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 -- 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