right now, i could send out a whole bunch of tweets with crappy yfrog URLs (that all return 404s). to end users, again, it seems like yfrog is a bad service.
i mean, you have good points - and i hear all of them - its not something we are going to with for now, but i totally understand everything you're saying. On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Dewald Pretorius <[email protected]> wrote: > Raffi, > > It's not about people using or not using rogue apps. It's about rogue > apps poisoning the annotation data and ruining it for everybody. > > Rogue apps can continue to refresh their consumer keys with new > accounts and OAuth app registrations, as soon as the one currently in > use is suspended. > > Meaning, a new class of rogue app will emerge. Ones with the express > purpose of getting their data into the namespaces. > > To name one example (with reference to Marcel's examples): > > - A rogue app that creates tweets with an affiliate link in the > <amazon> namespace. > > On Apr 16, 3:31 pm, Raffi Krikorian <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'd strongly urge you to consider a more structured and controlled > > > environment for annotations. > > > > > Ideally, I think an OAuth app must register a namespace, or subscribe > > > to an existing namespace of another app, before it can create > > > annotations in that namespace. And these registrations and > > > subscriptions must be reviewed and approved before an app can actually > > > contribute to a namespace. > > > > > Being as open and free as you currently have it, it's fertile soil for > > > the poisoning of any namespace by any rogue or not-so-nice app. > > > > > It's better to plan and create the controls ahead of time. You're > > > going to save everyone, including yourselves, a lot of effort and > > > time. > > > > the same could happen right now - if somebody puts a $ before something, > > stock twits may try to parse that as a stock market commodity. i don't > see > > us (for some) enforcing anything on the namespaces, and will let the > > community try to work it out. > > > > if there happens to be a rogue app, then users will stop using it. > > > > -- > > Raffi Krikorian > > Twitter Platform Teamhttp://twitter.com/raffi > > > > -- > > Subscription settings: > http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/subscribe?hl=en-Hide > quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > -- Raffi Krikorian Twitter Platform Team http://twitter.com/raffi
