[twitter-dev] Re: Wondering if this would be against TOS
Thank you for the clarification, glad to hear that it shouldn't conflict with the TOS. On 8/28/09, Andrew Badera and...@badera.us wrote: 1. If you're not putting messages in front of someone, it's not spam. If you're not aggressively following and @'g people, it's probably not spam. 2. It would probably be better to do it all with one account -- most users don't wish to sign up for and maintain more than one. But people having multiple accounts is not, to my knowledge, against TOS by any means. (But maybe it should be ) ∞ Andy Badera ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=(andrew+badera)+OR+(andy+badera) On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Peter J. Walshxor.g...@gmail.com wrote: tl;dr: I'm a hobbyist programmer writing an application that passes data to/from devices using twitter, and was wondering if this would be a violation of the TOS? or if you prefer, the longer version: I'm a hobbyist programmer writing an application. An application that controls other applications on a host by receiving data sent to twitter from a remote device such as a cell phone. It's not very far along, so far the only thing it can do is query the status of uTorrent at the request of the remote device and return it through direct messaging, and add torrents passed through a direct message. I was wondering if this portion would constitute spam? The application also requires a person to have two accounts, one for themselves, and one for the application. As a hobbyist programmer I don't really spread my applications around, just to a few people to help test them. So far this particular application has only been sent to one other person. So I was wondering also if this creation of two accounts would cause issues? If this would cause issues, I could rewrite the application to only need one account for all it's users, but this would hinder it's adoption of other applications that don't support a HTTP interface. Of course if any of these things would cause any issues I would be more than willing to discontinue development.
[twitter-dev] Re: Wondering if this would be against TOS
1. If you're not putting messages in front of someone, it's not spam. If you're not aggressively following and @'g people, it's probably not spam. 2. It would probably be better to do it all with one account -- most users don't wish to sign up for and maintain more than one. But people having multiple accounts is not, to my knowledge, against TOS by any means. (But maybe it should be ) ∞ Andy Badera ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=(andrew+badera)+OR+(andy+badera) On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:24 AM, Peter J. Walshxor.g...@gmail.com wrote: tl;dr: I'm a hobbyist programmer writing an application that passes data to/from devices using twitter, and was wondering if this would be a violation of the TOS? or if you prefer, the longer version: I'm a hobbyist programmer writing an application. An application that controls other applications on a host by receiving data sent to twitter from a remote device such as a cell phone. It's not very far along, so far the only thing it can do is query the status of uTorrent at the request of the remote device and return it through direct messaging, and add torrents passed through a direct message. I was wondering if this portion would constitute spam? The application also requires a person to have two accounts, one for themselves, and one for the application. As a hobbyist programmer I don't really spread my applications around, just to a few people to help test them. So far this particular application has only been sent to one other person. So I was wondering also if this creation of two accounts would cause issues? If this would cause issues, I could rewrite the application to only need one account for all it's users, but this would hinder it's adoption of other applications that don't support a HTTP interface. Of course if any of these things would cause any issues I would be more than willing to discontinue development.
[twitter-dev] Re: Wondering if this would be against TOS
There are other applications already deployed that let you do things like control your computer via Twitter, and I haven't heard any complaining about them with regard to TOS. I have a second Twitter account that I use for testing my application, and I'm not aware of any TOS provision that prohibits this. On Aug 28, 12:24 am, Peter J. Walsh xor.g...@gmail.com wrote: tl;dr: I'm a hobbyist programmer writing an application that passes data to/from devices using twitter, and was wondering if this would be a violation of the TOS? or if you prefer, the longer version: I'm a hobbyist programmer writing an application. An application that controls other applications on a host by receiving data sent to twitter from a remote device such as a cell phone. It's not very far along, so far the only thing it can do is query the status of uTorrent at the request of the remote device and return it through direct messaging, and add torrents passed through a direct message. I was wondering if this portion would constitute spam? The application also requires a person to have two accounts, one for themselves, and one for the application. As a hobbyist programmer I don't really spread my applications around, just to a few people to help test them. So far this particular application has only been sent to one other person. So I was wondering also if this creation of two accounts would cause issues? If this would cause issues, I could rewrite the application to only need one account for all it's users, but this would hinder it's adoption of other applications that don't support a HTTP interface. Of course if any of these things would cause any issues I would be more than willing to discontinue development.
