Re: [twitter-dev] Auto tweeting - guidelines and reporting bad practice
I'm in the middle of a release push for the Social Media Analytics Research Toolkit. If the thing is still around when I get that done, I'll take up cudgels and pitchforks and torches, assuming RWW, Mashable and Techcrunch haven't ground it into the soil by then. ;-) -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos Quoting Scott Wilcox : Do it, do it, do it! teehee! On 17 Aug 2010, at 19:42, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: I'm seriously considering a blog post about it - someone talk me out of it! -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos Quoting Tom van der Woerdt : I have a feeling that I know which app you are talking about - my timeline is also flooded with tweets from that app. Tom On 8/17/10 8:28 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: Yeah, that thing bit me too - I deleted the tweet it sent. There *is* a warning on the page that it will send the tweet, though. I think the Twitterverse will jump on him and he'll pull it down. -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos Quoting Taylor Singletary : Principle #1 of the Twitter Platform is: "Don't Surprise Users." -- And this type of activity does exactly that and is therefore against the spirit of the developer guidelines. http://dev.twitter.com/api_terms You can report misbehaving applications at: http://twitter.com/help/escalate Taylor On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: > Is there anything in the terms of use about best practice for auto- > tweeting? Go find out? http://twitter.com/tos > I refer to the irritating practice an app automatically tweeting a > viral message from your account when you authenticate. e.g. "I just > got 50% somethingfactor on somelameapp.com, what's yours?" As far as I know, that is not forbidden, as long as the application explicitly mentions that the application will post a tweet. > It should be against the terms of use to do this without the *minimum* > of a warning message, e.g. "logging in will send a tweet from your > account" - best practice would be an opt-in checkbox or some such UI. Like I said > There needs to be a way for applications to be reported for doing this. I agree.
Re: [twitter-dev] Auto tweeting - guidelines and reporting bad practice
Do it, do it, do it! teehee! On 17 Aug 2010, at 19:42, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > I'm seriously considering a blog post about it - someone talk me out of it! > > -- > M. Edward (Ed) Borasky > http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb > > "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos > > > Quoting Tom van der Woerdt : > >> I have a feeling that I know which app you are talking about - my >> timeline is also flooded with tweets from that app. >> >> Tom >> >> >> On 8/17/10 8:28 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: >>> Yeah, that thing bit me too - I deleted the tweet it sent. There *is* a >>> warning on the page that it will send the tweet, though. I think the >>> Twitterverse will jump on him and he'll pull it down. >>> >>> -- >>> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky >>> http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb >>> >>> "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul >>> Erdos >>> >>> >>> Quoting Taylor Singletary : >>> Principle #1 of the Twitter Platform is: "Don't Surprise Users." -- And this type of activity does exactly that and is therefore against the spirit of the developer guidelines. http://dev.twitter.com/api_terms You can report misbehaving applications at: http://twitter.com/help/escalate Taylor On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: > > Is there anything in the terms of use about best practice for auto- > > tweeting? > Go find out? http://twitter.com/tos > > > I refer to the irritating practice an app automatically tweeting a > > viral message from your account when you authenticate. e.g. "I just > > got 50% somethingfactor on somelameapp.com, what's yours?" > As far as I know, that is not forbidden, as long as the application > explicitly mentions that the application will post a tweet. > > > It should be against the terms of use to do this without the *minimum* > > of a warning message, e.g. "logging in will send a tweet from your > > account" - best practice would be an opt-in checkbox or some such UI. > Like I said > > > There needs to be a way for applications to be reported for doing > this. > I agree. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
Re: [twitter-dev] Auto tweeting - guidelines and reporting bad practice
I'm seriously considering a blog post about it - someone talk me out of it! -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos Quoting Tom van der Woerdt : I have a feeling that I know which app you are talking about - my timeline is also flooded with tweets from that app. Tom On 8/17/10 8:28 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: Yeah, that thing bit me too - I deleted the tweet it sent. There *is* a warning on the page that it will send the tweet, though. I think the Twitterverse will jump on him and he'll pull it down. -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos Quoting Taylor Singletary : Principle #1 of the Twitter Platform is: "Don't Surprise Users." -- And this type of activity does exactly that and is therefore against the spirit of the developer guidelines. http://dev.twitter.com/api_terms You can report misbehaving applications at: http://twitter.com/help/escalate Taylor On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: > Is there anything in the terms of use about best practice for auto- > tweeting? Go find out? http://twitter.com/tos > I refer to the irritating practice an app automatically tweeting a > viral message from your account when you authenticate. e.g. "I just > got 50% somethingfactor on somelameapp.com, what's yours?" As far as I know, that is not forbidden, as long as the application explicitly mentions that the application will post a tweet. > It should be against the terms of use to do this without the *minimum* > of a warning message, e.g. "logging in will send a tweet from your > account" - best practice would be an opt-in checkbox or some such UI. Like I said > There needs to be a way for applications to be reported for doing this. I agree. Tom
Re: [twitter-dev] Auto tweeting - guidelines and reporting bad practice
I have a feeling that I know which app you are talking about - my timeline is also flooded with tweets from that app. Tom On 8/17/10 8:28 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > Yeah, that thing bit me too - I deleted the tweet it sent. There *is* a > warning on the page that it will send the tweet, though. I think the > Twitterverse will jump on him and he'll pull it down. > > -- > M. Edward (Ed) Borasky > http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb > > "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul > Erdos > > > Quoting Taylor Singletary : > >> Principle #1 of the Twitter Platform is: "Don't Surprise Users." -- >> And this >> type of activity does exactly that and is therefore against the spirit of >> the developer guidelines. http://dev.twitter.com/api_terms >> >> You can report misbehaving applications at: >> http://twitter.com/help/escalate >> >> Taylor >> >> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: >> >>> > Is there anything in the terms of use about best practice for auto- >>> > tweeting? >>> Go find out? http://twitter.com/tos >>> >>> > I refer to the irritating practice an app automatically tweeting a >>> > viral message from your account when you authenticate. e.g. "I just >>> > got 50% somethingfactor on somelameapp.com, what's yours?" >>> As far as I know, that is not forbidden, as long as the application >>> explicitly mentions that the application will post a tweet. >>> >>> > It should be against the terms of use to do this without the *minimum* >>> > of a warning message, e.g. "logging in will send a tweet from your >>> > account" - best practice would be an opt-in checkbox or some such UI. >>> Like I said >>> >>> > There needs to be a way for applications to be reported for doing >>> this. >>> I agree. >>> >>> Tom >>> >> > > >
Re: [twitter-dev] Auto tweeting - guidelines and reporting bad practice
Yeah, that thing bit me too - I deleted the tweet it sent. There *is* a warning on the page that it will send the tweet, though. I think the Twitterverse will jump on him and he'll pull it down. -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos Quoting Taylor Singletary : Principle #1 of the Twitter Platform is: "Don't Surprise Users." -- And this type of activity does exactly that and is therefore against the spirit of the developer guidelines. http://dev.twitter.com/api_terms You can report misbehaving applications at: http://twitter.com/help/escalate Taylor On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: > Is there anything in the terms of use about best practice for auto- > tweeting? Go find out? http://twitter.com/tos > I refer to the irritating practice an app automatically tweeting a > viral message from your account when you authenticate. e.g. "I just > got 50% somethingfactor on somelameapp.com, what's yours?" As far as I know, that is not forbidden, as long as the application explicitly mentions that the application will post a tweet. > It should be against the terms of use to do this without the *minimum* > of a warning message, e.g. "logging in will send a tweet from your > account" - best practice would be an opt-in checkbox or some such UI. Like I said > There needs to be a way for applications to be reported for doing this. I agree. Tom
Re: [twitter-dev] Auto tweeting - guidelines and reporting bad practice
Principle #1 of the Twitter Platform is: "Don't Surprise Users." -- And this type of activity does exactly that and is therefore against the spirit of the developer guidelines. http://dev.twitter.com/api_terms You can report misbehaving applications at: http://twitter.com/help/escalate Taylor On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote: > > Is there anything in the terms of use about best practice for auto- > > tweeting? > Go find out? http://twitter.com/tos > > > I refer to the irritating practice an app automatically tweeting a > > viral message from your account when you authenticate. e.g. "I just > > got 50% somethingfactor on somelameapp.com, what's yours?" > As far as I know, that is not forbidden, as long as the application > explicitly mentions that the application will post a tweet. > > > It should be against the terms of use to do this without the *minimum* > > of a warning message, e.g. "logging in will send a tweet from your > > account" - best practice would be an opt-in checkbox or some such UI. > Like I said > > > There needs to be a way for applications to be reported for doing this. > I agree. > > Tom >
Re: [twitter-dev] Auto tweeting - guidelines and reporting bad practice
> Is there anything in the terms of use about best practice for auto- > tweeting? Go find out? http://twitter.com/tos > I refer to the irritating practice an app automatically tweeting a > viral message from your account when you authenticate. e.g. "I just > got 50% somethingfactor on somelameapp.com, what's yours?" As far as I know, that is not forbidden, as long as the application explicitly mentions that the application will post a tweet. > It should be against the terms of use to do this without the *minimum* > of a warning message, e.g. "logging in will send a tweet from your > account" - best practice would be an opt-in checkbox or some such UI. Like I said > There needs to be a way for applications to be reported for doing this. I agree. Tom
[twitter-dev] Auto tweeting - guidelines and reporting bad practice
Is there anything in the terms of use about best practice for auto- tweeting? I refer to the irritating practice an app automatically tweeting a viral message from your account when you authenticate. e.g. "I just got 50% somethingfactor on somelameapp.com, what's yours?" It should be against the terms of use to do this without the *minimum* of a warning message, e.g. "logging in will send a tweet from your account" - best practice would be an opt-in checkbox or some such UI. There needs to be a way for applications to be reported for doing this.
