Dean, calm down please. I thought of a potential issue. It is Twitter's decision whether they also see it as a potential issue and want to do anything about it.
Dewald On Aug 14, 10:37 am, "Dean Collins" <[email protected]> wrote: > And as for you comment about them being spammy? > > If you are not following them whats your problem? > > Eg. Ford might want to set up a twitter account that RT a posts about anyone > who mentions Ford in their tweets. Whats your problem with that? > > Of course it could get publicly commandeered like the 'Skittles' experiment > this year but that's not Twitters problem, and it's certainly not 'your' > problem. > > Regards, > Dean Collins > [email protected] > +1-212-203-4357 New York > +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). > +44-20-3129-6001 (London in-dial). > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dean Collins > Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 9:34 AM > To: '[email protected]' > Subject: RE: [twitter-dev] Re: Early developer preview: Retweeting API > > There are lots of apps that capture this information already. > > I'm not sure of the name of it but we had one at BarCampNYC that did as you > described for anyone who used the hashtag BCNYC5 > > Regards, > > Dean Collins > Cognation Inc > [email protected] > +1-212-203-4357 New York > +61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial). > +44-20-3129-6001 (London in-dial). > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dewald > Pretorius > Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 9:31 AM > To: Twitter Development Talk > Subject: [twitter-dev] Re: Early developer preview: Retweeting API > > Twitter, you will have to create new rules and limits around these new > methods. > > A new breed of spammy app is going to emerge that leverages > retweeting. > > One where users can say, "Search for tweets that contain these > keywords, and automatically retweet them for me on my account." > > So, you're going to get Twitter accounts that simply retweet tweets > from others to fill their timelines, or to interleave them with the > remainder of their tweets that all contain affiliate links. > > Currently that is not so easy to do, because you have to massage the > tweet text, i.e., insert "RT " and chop some text off if that takes > the length beyond 140 characters, not chop off part of an URL if it's > at the end of the text, etc. With the new methods all that falls away, > because attribution is now given by the "retweeted by" in the source. > No text massaging is required. > > How about: "You can only retweet tweets from those you follow." Just a > thought. > > Dewald
