Hi Tim, We looked into your request but unfortunately cannot expedite resolving it right now. In this case, the account used to post the tweets was suspended -- not your application. While there's obviously a good deal of overlap between API policy/enforcement and account policy/enforcement, this kind of suspension falls squarely in the "account policy" camp. The support team's response time is actually quite good right now, and I imagine you'll be hearing back from them soon.
Thanks for the keen understanding on what went wrong here -- since there are obviously many developers who might find themselves facing the same scenario at some point, can you share a bit on what actions you'll take to avoid this in the future? Thanks! Taylor On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:48 PM, Tim Bull <[email protected]> wrote: > Our application (twitter.com/distlr) has had it's account suspended > and I need this reviewed. I (think I) understand why it was > suspended, which was stupidity on my part rather than anything > malicious or bad on the part of the application itself. > > We follow a very lean start-up approach: > > * We had the idea for Distlr and immediately interviewed people and > asked them if they'd use it. > * When they said Yes, we prototyped it with @anywhere and put it in > front of them, then surveyed them and asked if they'd use it. > * When they said yes, we developed a very alpha version with full > OAuth integration, incorporating their feedback and put it front of a > bigger audience. Around 60 people registered and 400 used it > anonymously. > > Unsurprisingly if you follow the thread here, I then went to survey > these 60 registered users - I created a Google Form and then (being > very lean and not trying over engineering things) started sending the > messages from the Distlr account to each of the registered users. > > "@usera @userb @etc Thanks for using Distlr. Would love your feedback > via this short survey: http://bit.ly/distlrsurvey"; > > After several of these, the Distlr account was suspended. > > Immediately when this happened, I've slapped my forehead with the > biggest "Doh!" you've heard. As I've explained in the ticket, this is > more user stupidity on my part rather than anything malicious the > application itself is doing. > > It's holding us up because while the ticket is Open, I'm loath to move > the app to a new account as it may look like we are trying to be > underhanded, which we absolutely aren't. Unless Twitter knows > differently, I really don't think the app itself is misbehaving, I > think it's just these survey links which have caused the concern. > > How long are these support tickets taking to be reviewed (it's been > open over 17 hours now) and is it possible that someone from the > Twitter dev support team can help out with getting it reviewed sooner > please? If we have to wait, we have to wait, but we'd love to > progress forwards with the feedback we did get from the few people > that filled out the survey before the account got suspended. > > The ticket is http://support.twitter.com/tickets/1256917 > > Thanks! > > Tim Bull > > -- > 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
