Principle #1 of the Twitter Platform is: "Don't Surprise Users." -- And this type of activity does exactly that and is therefore against the spirit of the developer guidelines. http://dev.twitter.com/api_terms
You can report misbehaving applications at: http://twitter.com/help/escalate Taylor On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Tom van der Woerdt <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is there anything in the terms of use about best practice for auto- > > tweeting? > Go find out? http://twitter.com/tos > > > I refer to the irritating practice an app automatically tweeting a > > viral message from your account when you authenticate. e.g. "I just > > got 50% somethingfactor on somelameapp.com, what's yours?" > As far as I know, that is not forbidden, as long as the application > explicitly mentions that the application will post a tweet. > > > It should be against the terms of use to do this without the *minimum* > > of a warning message, e.g. "logging in will send a tweet from your > > account" - best practice would be an opt-in checkbox or some such UI. > Like I said > > > There needs to be a way for applications to be reported for doing this. > I agree. > > Tom >
