Arnaud, If you guys want a suggestion on what Twitter should be working on then my list would include things that corporates would actually want to pay money for including analytics and analysis on who is viewing my tweets.
The day Twitter pony up and start allowing paid accounts is the day I know their serious. Cheers, Dean -----Original Message----- From: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com [mailto:twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of M. Edward (Ed) Borasky Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 4:12 AM To: twitter-development-talk@googlegroups.com Cc: dpr...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [twitter-dev] Re: At Reply Spam It's an @reply spambot, pure and simple. There is no vetting of suggested users - it didn't take either me or Marshall Kirkpatrick long to find a tweeter that was not safe for work in @twittersuggests' stream. It's a bad idea - Twitter needs to quit screwing around with stuff like this and solve problems that keep people with budgets up at night! On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Arnaud Meunier <arn...@twitter.com> wrote: > Dewald, > > These rules apply to third party apps. @twittersuggests is not a third > party app, but an experimental feature, developed and owned by > Twitter. > > Now I can also understand this "Do as I Say, not as I Do" situation > can be irritating. But I guess the best thing to do at this point is > probably to share your thoughts on the experiment through his > dedicated feedback form: > https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/twitter.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHJ6UnYwdFZ6aHNRRVJoTU1mYl9FMlE6MQ > > Arnaud / @rno > > > On May 5, 2011, at 11:56 AM, Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 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 > > -- > 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 > -- http://twitter.com/znmeb http://borasky-research.net "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." -- Paul Erdős -- 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
