On Jan 30, 3:38 pm, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> wrote: > As there are many people and bots that are doing exactly this as we > speak, I would tend to say "yes". The Creepiness-Factor(tm) is up to > you.
Taking this further: * what if the bot simply asks "@someone What do you mean by singularity"? If this person replies publicly, then I suppose it is fair game for the app to make use of his/her reply to build a database as part of a specialized service. It may not be obvious to this person though that his/her reply will be used for someone else's benefit... * and what if it's not obvious that the question is even coming from a bot? is it still acceptable? Amir > > -Chad > > > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Amir Michail <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I would like to have an app post public tweets to contact people (who > > probably don't know anything about the app) who are likely to know > > something specific. > > > For example, the app might do this to request information about the > > "singularity". > > > Is that an acceptable use of the API? > > > Amir
