Dewald, Try looking in the google cache. I'm surprised it was allowed to live for as long as it did. http://74.125.155.132/search?q=cache:o2N2KuZsuYgJ:www.gotwitr.com/+gotwitr&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk
It was basically a spam enabler. T. On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 <j...@fulford.me> 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 >
