[twitter-dev] Re: Changes to Twitter TOS/Rules.

2009-10-01 Thread Andy Freeman
How can an application determine that an account has been suspended? Please assume that the application has OAuth read/write for the account. Thanks, -andy On Sep 15, 9:28 am, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: The account will be suspended. It won't work, and it won't be visible. You

[twitter-dev] Re: Changes to Twitter TOS/Rules.

2009-09-30 Thread HardipSingh
Thanks for the response Ryan. Doesn't look like our account got blocked since we are able to tweet. I am seeing some rate limit issues which I started another thread about. I did notice that none of our tweets show up in search results though. What type of behavior could be preventing us from

[twitter-dev] Re: Changes to Twitter TOS/Rules.

2009-09-16 Thread Ryan Sarver
Hardip, Thanks for your email. Our intent is to stop spamming accounts. Your use does not fall into that category, but its good practice to be judicious when including a lot of links in your updates as it triggers a lot of the filters that try to catch spam. Best, Ryan On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at

[twitter-dev] re: Changes to Twitter TOS/Rules.

2009-09-15 Thread HardipSingh
I am curious how the following rule impact those that are auto- tweeting job links to #jobs and the other twitter job boards. * If your updates consist mainly of links, and not personal updates; Does this mean that we are in violation of this rule if I have an account that is primarily

[twitter-dev] Re: Changes to Twitter TOS/Rules.

2009-09-15 Thread John Kalucki
This is taken from the Twitter Rules, not the TOS, so this isn't expressly against the TOS. Rather, this is one guideline of many that Twitter may use to determine if an account is spammy. If job postings are otherwise good and useful, I wouldn't fret too much. But, I'd also expect that you just

[twitter-dev] Re: Changes to Twitter TOS/Rules.

2009-09-15 Thread Joseph Cheek
out of curiosity, how can you tell if your account is flagged as spammy, and what can you do about it? Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom John Kalucki wrote: This is taken from the Twitter Rules, not the TOS, so this isn't expressly against

[twitter-dev] Re: Changes to Twitter TOS/Rules.

2009-09-15 Thread John Kalucki
The account will be suspended. It won't work, and it won't be visible. You can file a support ticket and contemplate your apparent or actual transgressions as you wait for them to sort out the account's fate. At first glance this may not seem fair, but the vast majority of accounts that are

[twitter-dev] Re: Changes to Twitter TOS/Rules.

2009-09-15 Thread HardipSingh
Thanks for the prompt response John. This info helps a lot. Looks like we should be OK then, but we will keep an eye out to make sure none of our flagged as spammy. ~ H On Sep 15, 12:15 pm, John Kalucki jkalu...@gmail.com wrote: This is taken from the Twitter Rules, not the TOS, so this

[twitter-dev] Re: Changes to Twitter TOS/Rules.

2009-09-15 Thread Joseph Cheek
ok. i have an account that never shows up in search results or in track.xml. i thought that might be it, but i guess not. Joseph Cheek jos...@cheek.com, www.cheek.com twitter: http://twitter.com/cheekdotcom John Kalucki wrote: The account will be suspended. It won't work, and it won't be

[twitter-dev] Re: Changes to Twitter TOS/Rules.

2009-09-15 Thread Nigel Cannings
You'll know, trust me, having just got done for posting too many hashtags We've been automatically tagging users' feeds, and posting the resulting hashtags centrally on @linkkytags - Until the middle of last night! So, unless begging works (which it hasn't so far), we'll be pursuing