Yet TweetAdder and Hummingbird are still kicking around and active? ∞ Andy Badera ∞ +1 518-641-1280 Google Voice ∞ This email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private ∞ Google me: http://www.google.com/search?q=andrew%20badera
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Tim Haines <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[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 > >
