Please, if you do this, provide an opt-out so those that don't want to receive the mass dms don't have to receive them. I wish more apps would do this, for both mass-dm and auto-dm. @Jesse
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Alex <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.) >
