Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Need tips on avoiding having application banned

2010-05-24 Thread Taylor Singletary
Hi Pythonista, You are on the right track about rate limiting. We allow for scheduled tweets as long as the system you build for dispatching them cannot be easily abused. If your application has some abusive users, it's most likely your application would only get a temporary suspension while you

[twitter-dev] Re: Need tips on avoiding having application banned

2010-05-21 Thread mcfnord
If you spent 45 minutes browsing discussions about Dean Collins, then you studied how spammers caused a made-for-spammers app to get banned. If you prevent people from using your app in an abusive way, you won't end up like Dean Collins.