[twitter-dev] Re: ok to reserver a few dozen usernames for a business idea?
Alex and Doug, I appreciate your replies. We'll go with option 2 for now. Thanks. On Mar 18, 2:25 pm, Doug Williams d...@twitter.com wrote: Lucy, You should only create accounts for users that you are actively using. Please do not create accounts to squat on them. A strong indication that an account should not exist account is a noticeable lack of followers. From your description, I would suggest you concentrate on Option 2 and focus your efforts on a single username for the game. Only after it becomes clear that your users would benefit from independentnames would Option 1 make sense. Thanks, Doug WilliamsTwitterAPI Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:32 PM, lucy a.downy.h...@gmail.com wrote: A friend and I want to start a legitimate business involving atwitter app. We're not sure what the best practice is regarding reserving twitterusernames. We don't want to do anything slimey or abusive, but we also don't want to shoot ourselves in the foot by being warm and fuzzy instead of playing the marketing/convenience game. Essentially, the question is: if we plan to make a bunch of related apps, is it ok toreserve50 usernames? Say our company is called Foo, and we want to release FooBar, FooQux and FooMoo, etc. option 1: Is it ok toreserveeach sub-app that users can interact via: @FooBar sekret command and so that they only get updates about FooBar if that's what interests them? option 2: Dev-wise, it's pretty similar for users to have to interact via: @Foo Bar sekret command where Foo is our only reserved username. Users won't be able to specifically follow the sub-app that interests them, but we could work that out internally and only direct message relevant users. The sub-apps are definitely apps in their own rights, rather than categories. My friend and I are pretty serious about developing this suite, and while some of the usernames won't get used (presumably we can delete those accounts once that becomes clear), most of them will be. We want to ensure our Foo brand doesn't run into problems. It still feels greedy. Is option 1 a standard thing to do? Will our accounts be taken from us? Will we be banned? Thanks!
[twitter-dev] Re: ok to reserver a few dozen usernames for a business idea?
If you create a bunch of accounts in a short period of time, it's likely that our support staff will ban those accounts. Please let them know ahead of time: supp...@twitter.com. On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 09:32, lucy a.downy.h...@gmail.com wrote: A friend and I want to start a legitimate business involving a twitter app. We're not sure what the best practice is regarding reserving twitter usernames. We don't want to do anything slimey or abusive, but we also don't want to shoot ourselves in the foot by being warm and fuzzy instead of playing the marketing/convenience game. Essentially, the question is: if we plan to make a bunch of related apps, is it ok to reserve 50 usernames? Say our company is called Foo, and we want to release FooBar, FooQux and FooMoo, etc. option 1: Is it ok to reserve each sub-app that users can interact via: @FooBar sekret command and so that they only get updates about FooBar if that's what interests them? option 2: Dev-wise, it's pretty similar for users to have to interact via: @Foo Bar sekret command where Foo is our only reserved username. Users won't be able to specifically follow the sub-app that interests them, but we could work that out internally and only direct message relevant users. The sub-apps are definitely apps in their own rights, rather than categories. My friend and I are pretty serious about developing this suite, and while some of the usernames won't get used (presumably we can delete those accounts once that becomes clear), most of them will be. We want to ensure our Foo brand doesn't run into problems. It still feels greedy. Is option 1 a standard thing to do? Will our accounts be taken from us? Will we be banned? Thanks! -- Alex Payne - API Lead, Twitter, Inc. http://twitter.com/al3x
[twitter-dev] Re: ok to reserver a few dozen usernames for a business idea?
Lucy, You should only create accounts for users that you are actively using. Please do not create accounts to squat on them. A strong indication that an account should not exist account is a noticeable lack of followers. From your description, I would suggest you concentrate on Option 2 and focus your efforts on a single username for the game. Only after it becomes clear that your users would benefit from independent names would Option 1 make sense. Thanks, Doug Williams Twitter API Support http://twitter.com/dougw On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:32 PM, lucy a.downy.h...@gmail.com wrote: A friend and I want to start a legitimate business involving a twitter app. We're not sure what the best practice is regarding reserving twitter usernames. We don't want to do anything slimey or abusive, but we also don't want to shoot ourselves in the foot by being warm and fuzzy instead of playing the marketing/convenience game. Essentially, the question is: if we plan to make a bunch of related apps, is it ok to reserve 50 usernames? Say our company is called Foo, and we want to release FooBar, FooQux and FooMoo, etc. option 1: Is it ok to reserve each sub-app that users can interact via: @FooBar sekret command and so that they only get updates about FooBar if that's what interests them? option 2: Dev-wise, it's pretty similar for users to have to interact via: @Foo Bar sekret command where Foo is our only reserved username. Users won't be able to specifically follow the sub-app that interests them, but we could work that out internally and only direct message relevant users. The sub-apps are definitely apps in their own rights, rather than categories. My friend and I are pretty serious about developing this suite, and while some of the usernames won't get used (presumably we can delete those accounts once that becomes clear), most of them will be. We want to ensure our Foo brand doesn't run into problems. It still feels greedy. Is option 1 a standard thing to do? Will our accounts be taken from us? Will we be banned? Thanks!
