Re: [twitter-dev] Re: At Reply Spam

2011-05-06 Thread Arnaud Meunier
Dewald, These rules apply to third party apps. @twittersuggests is not a third party app, but an experimental feature, developed and owned by Twitter. Now I can also understand this Do as I Say, not as I Do situation can be irritating. But I guess the best thing to do at this point is probably

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: At Reply Spam

2011-05-06 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
It's an @reply spambot, pure and simple. There is no vetting of suggested users - it didn't take either me or Marshall Kirkpatrick long to find a tweeter that was not safe for work in @twittersuggests' stream. It's a bad idea - Twitter needs to quit screwing around with stuff like this and solve

RE: [twitter-dev] Re: At Reply Spam

2011-05-06 Thread Dean Collins
...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [twitter-dev] Re: At Reply Spam It's an @reply spambot, pure and simple. There is no vetting of suggested users - it didn't take either me or Marshall Kirkpatrick long to find a tweeter that was not safe for work in @twittersuggests' stream. It's a bad idea - Twitter needs

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: At Reply Spam

2011-05-05 Thread TjL
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: If not, then you may have de facto invalidated that section of your rules and by implication exempted all developers and applications from it. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Um… Yeah. Here's the

Re: [twitter-dev] Re: At Reply Spam

2011-05-05 Thread hax0rsteve
+1 It is Twitter's ball. On 5 May 2011, at 20:04, TjL wrote: On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Dewald Pretorius dpr...@gmail.com wrote: If not, then you may have de facto invalidated that section of your rules and by implication exempted all developers and applications from it.