I understand the negative implications of doing this. The main reason I ask is that I've had my users ask me.
There are other sites offering such features, and their web sites imply they have some kind of special relationship with Twitter that allows them to do this. I'm not sure if that's true or not? On Apr 14, 7:46 pm, Doug Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > Alex, > That sounds very spamish although there are certainly some use cases where > it is acceptable. Proceed with caution when sending mass DMs. Ensure the > messages you are sending are relevant and of value to your followers. > > Doug Williams > Twitter API Supporthttp://twitter.com/dougw > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Chad Etzel <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I believe that's called "Tweeting" > > -Chad > > > On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Alex <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I'm wondering if there is a way - or if you would consider adding a > > > way - to send a DM to all followers via the API? > > > > Obviously we could grab the followers list and iterate over it to send > > > the DM to all, though that could require thousands of API calls > > > depending on the user. (And could therefore take hours to do with the > > > 100 API query/hour limit.)
