D. Dante Lorenso wrote: part of this is making a statement to get publicity, if twitter really didn't like what you were doing they'd simply cut off your app accessing their servers. But obviously that is not what its about.
> Dean Collins wrote: > >> I received this email 30 minutes ago stating that Twitter is suing me?? >> Basically they feel that my application - www.MyTwitterButler.com >> <http://www.mytwitterbutler.com/> does the following. >> *1/ That anyone using the API to auto follow people are breaching the TOS??* >> *2/ That no one can use the word “Twitter” in their domain* >> *3/ That somehow people might be confused my application is related to >> twitter even though every page is labeled //* >> > > > I'd have to side with Twitter on this one: > > 1) From your domain name, I don't know that you aren't part of Twitter(tm) > > 2) Your service seems to be trying to circumvent what they are doing > rather than just adding value to it. > > 3) You are using a Twitter-like bird in your logo at the top. > > I bet if you changed your domain name, changed your service name, > created a different logo, and stopped infringing on their trade mark > you'd be fine. > > I'll bet the Twitter TOS grants you rights to their API as long as you > are only adding value and not trying to lead customers away from > Twitter. They have the right to put something like that in there TOS. > > Then again, your app seems to heavily hit the Twitter API with 20,000 > API calls an hour? I bet you don't pay monies to Twitter for all that > system usage yet you are making money from sales of your app at $10 per > license. If you sell 10,000 copies of your code, Twitter has to suffer > through 20 million API calls per hour (480 BILLION calls per day) and > you get to have $100,000. That doesn't seem fair does it? > > -- Dante > > ---------- > D. Dante Lorenso > da...@larkspark.com > 972-333-4139 > > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona > Register Now: http://www.astricon.net > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > > _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- AstriCon 2009 - October 13 - 15 Phoenix, Arizona Register Now: http://www.astricon.net asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users