Why not have each client register a notification account with your app that sends a DM to their main account. That gives every client 250 DMs. Better yet, make it a private account and push notifications as status updates giving you 1000/day while keeping privacy.
Sent from my iPhone On Feb 12, 2011, at 5:17 PM, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:07:36 -0500, Trevor Dean <[email protected]> wrote: >> I agree, don't be so quick to judge. We have an opt-in based service >> and out clients have thousands of customers that explicitly say "yes >> send me direct messages". The information we send is requested by the >> end user and is not spam. So you can imagine that a client with a >> large user base could quickly go beyond the 250 dm/day limit. It's >> unfortunate that the spammers take advantage and ultimately ruin >> things for legitimate services. >> >> Trevor Dean | Director >> big time design & communication Inc. >> 647 234 8198 >> >> Visit http://www.bigtimedesign.ca for more information > > Speaking of spam, there's a great article at the New York Times on J.C. > Penney, "black hat SEO" and Google: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/business/13search.html > > Many thanks to Twitter's spam fighters for keeping it as clean as it is, > under the circumstances. > > -- > http://twitter.com/znmeb http://borasky-research.net > > "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." -- Paul Erdős > > -- > 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
