I cannot comment on what Jim's site did or didn't do, since he has pulled all descriptive information from the site.
Nevertheless, it is highly disturbing that applications are being suspended without any notice. This particular site seems to have had a contact form, plus it was OAuth, so the owner could have been contacted via the email address on file for the Twitter user that owns the application. Yes, some apps do stuff that warrant suspension. But, to just suspend an app with no communication is bad. If Twitter don't want to give some sites the opportunity to correct transgressive behavior (I know they do communicate in some cases), at the very least send an email to the owner with, "Your service has been suspended because...", and give a clear path and instructions on how the situation can be remedied as soon as possible. I'm going to say it again, Twitter: Your rules are vague and nebulous. Not everyone understands and interprets the rules the way you do internally. You must realize that actions like these sometimes shout so loud that we cannot hear when you say, "We care about our developers." Rightly or wrongly, here's a developer who has lost face with his user base, and has been in the dark for 4 days now. The message it sends to us, the other developers, is a very bad message. If you properly communicated with Jim, he probably wouldn't even have posted about it here. On Feb 14, 3:56 pm, Jim Fulford <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, I need some help. 4 days ago I started getting emails from my > users that they could not login to our site using the Oauth service. > I checked my site and it said my application had been suspended. I > did not get any email from Twitter, they just deactivated my > application so nothing works. I have sent in two support tickets, but > gotten no response. 2 days ago, I took my site downwww.gotwitr.com > so that I would stop getting support email from my users. > > I have had this site up for 5 months, and I have over 5000 users have > used the service. I am so glad that I have never charged for the > service, this would be a nightmare. > > If they would let me know what our site, or one of our users did to > get banned, we would be glad to fix it. We have tried to make our > site as Twitter API friendly as possible. > > We are 100% Oauth, we have never saved or requested any users > passwords. > We only let our users hit the Twitter API 1000 times in a 24 hour > period > We have all of our tools that follow or unfollow use individual user > verification, (no mass follow or unfollow) > > An email with the issue would have been great. > > Not getting a response in the last 4 days that my site has been down > is really not acceptable! > > Thanks
