[twitter-dev] Re: Status Updates

2010-09-22 Thread Goran Popovic
I've decided to stop sending this messages ...It's not worth of risk! Thanks everybody for your replies. Goran Popovic -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker:

[twitter-dev] Re: Status Updates

2010-09-21 Thread Goran Popovic
They are notified once and that's it ;) Well I got an idea to notify users lets say each 10 minutes ( ie. 100 users found today..and instead of notifying them immediately when they are found ..they would be added in a database..and then notified one by one every few minutes). I think that would

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Status Updates

2010-09-21 Thread Tim Haines
Hi, I have a bot that does something similar to this. If you do 100 spread out over the course of a day you'll be fine. If you did 100 in the course of an hour, Twitter would (very likely) suspend your account. They have monitoring in place for when certain thresholds are crossed, but they

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Status Updates

2010-09-21 Thread Taylor Singletary
The best way to avoid running afoul of Twitter's spam policies as an API developer is to follow a golden rule: don't surprise users. Automating an @mention because your algorithm determined something interesting about the user (as opposed to another user of your service deliberately triggering the

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: Status Updates

2010-09-21 Thread Scott Wilcox
Hi, I'd second that completely. Users *really* dislike finding messages directed to/at them for keyword tracking. The first thing I do is block and report that account for spam. Its one of my pet peeves regarding the streaming api/tracking. Scott. On 21 Sep 2010, at 16:00, Taylor Singletary