1) Look into whitelisting. 2) I don't know if this is a bug, or if it's on the roadmap for getting fixed, but as of the other week, you were still able (unless I'm crazy, I've been averaging <4 hours of sleep the past 6 weeks, anything's possible) to send DMs to yourself, from yourself, via approved OAuth apps. You could get user permission then use the user's account to send their own account the notification DM.
∞ 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, Mar 21, 2010 at 4:42 AM, MaartenB <maarten.bit...@exportant.nl> wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I'm looking for a best practice for sending personal alerts directly > via twitter! > > I have an application where users can create a personal search profile > (just like Google Alerts) and receive updates in their mailbox. A user > will only receive one update a day (at max), but in most cases there > will 1 or 2 updates a week. > > How can I add Twitter updates to this workflow? > > I thougth I could simply send a Update Message with an @reply from my > company's twitter account. However I found out that a single twitter > account can only send 1000 updates a day. When I do use Direct > Messages I can only send 250 messages a day. > > The only workaround I see is to send the Updates to the user via the > account of the user itself. > > "[username] @[username] Hi, [user] there is a update for your profile: > [profilename]. Just check it out! http://bit.ly/............"; > > Do you have any comments on this, or maybe some tips to get my alerts > on Twitter? > > Thanks! > > Ps, all alerts and updates are on request of the user. He has to > validate his emailaccount (and in the future his twitter account) so > there is no spam sending involved! > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > twitter-development-talk+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email > with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to twitter-development-talk+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
