Do it, do it, do it! teehee!
On 17 Aug 2010, at 19:42, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: > I'm seriously considering a blog post about it - someone talk me out of it! > > -- > M. Edward (Ed) Borasky > http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb > > "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos > > > Quoting Tom van der Woerdt <i...@tvdw.eu>: > >> I have a feeling that I know which app you are talking about - my >> timeline is also flooded with tweets from that app. >> >> Tom >> >> >> On 8/17/10 8:28 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: >>> Yeah, that thing bit me too - I deleted the tweet it sent. There *is* a >>> warning on the page that it will send the tweet, though. I think the >>> Twitterverse will jump on him and he'll pull it down. >>> >>> -- >>> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky >>> http://borasky-research.net http://twitter.com/znmeb >>> >>> "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul >>> Erdos >>> >>> >>> Quoting Taylor Singletary <taylorsinglet...@twitter.com>: >>> >>>> 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 <i...@tvdw.eu> 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.
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