Our Automation Rules ( http://support.twitter.com/articles/76915 ) include guidelines for automating DMs when a user follows you. Specifically, we do not prohibit this behavior but we do not recommend it. The 250 DMs per day limit that Thomas mentioned is correct.
Brian Sutorius On Oct 2, 11:25 am, Thomas Mango <tsma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, there's a limit of 250 direct messages per day according > to:http://support.twitter.com/forums/10711/entries/15364 > > I'm not sure if there are any policies against automatically direct messaging > someone when they follow you, but a 250/day would certainly prevent that at > some point. I don't know the details of your application, but if you were > only planning to send new followers a direct message, perhaps you can avoid > asking them to follow you and sending them a direct message by just showing > them what you wanted to message them when they come back from the OAuth > authorization. > > -- > Thomas Mango > > On Oct 2, 2010, at 1:12 PM, "Dean Collins" <d...@cognation.net> wrote: > > > > > Thomas are there restrictions on what/how many direct messages can be sent? > > > I haven't been paying attention with twitter for a while but I thought > > twitter banned automatic direct messages. > > > Thanks in advance, > > Dean > > > I think what you described is exactly right. You're looking for an app > > that users can authorize with using OAuth. Once they're redirected back > > to your site (part of the OAuth process), you can create a user account > > for them locally and ask them to follow your Twitter account. Because > > they've authorized your application, when they agree to follow you, you > > can use the /friendships/create API method on their behalf. > > > Relevant API documentation: > >http://dev.twitter.com/pages/auth > >http://dev.twitter.com/doc/post/friendships/create > > > Dialflow wrote: > >> Hi: > > >> I was wondering if any one could suggest an elegant approach to > >> ultimately sending direct messages to my Twitter followers from my > >> application. > > >> I'd like people that join web site to do the following: > > >> From their member page on my site, I'd like for them to click a > >> Twitter follow button, go to Twitter, follow me, then return to their > >> member page on my site. > > >> After they do this, I want capture their twitter ID and associate it > >> with their user account on my site so I can send them direct messages > >> from my application. > > >> I'd really appreciate an elegant approach to solving this. > > >> I guess I'm looking for an answer like: "Use oAuth to have the user > >> authorize your app on Twitter, then redirect redirect back to your > >> app, click a twittter follow button, and extract their Twitter ID from > >> "x_file" and then........" > > >> My days of programming are way behind me so I hope that makes some > >> sense. > > >> Thanks so much. > >> Curtis > > > -- > > Thomas Mango > > tsma...@gmail.com > > > -- > > Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc > > API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi > > Issues/Enhancements Tracker:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > > Change your membership to this > > group:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk > > > -- > > Twitter developer documentation and resources:http://dev.twitter.com/doc > > API updates via Twitter:http://twitter.com/twitterapi > > Issues/Enhancements Tracker:http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list > > Change your membership to this > > group:http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk
