It's an @reply spambot, pure and simple. There is no vetting of suggested users - it didn't take either me or Marshall Kirkpatrick long to find a tweeter that was not safe for work in @twittersuggests' stream.
It's a bad idea - Twitter needs to quit screwing around with stuff like this and solve problems that keep people with budgets up at night! On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:38 AM, Arnaud Meunier <arn...@twitter.com> wrote: > Dewald, > > These rules apply to third party apps. @twittersuggests is not a third > party app, but an experimental feature, developed and owned by > Twitter. > > Now I can also understand this "Do as I Say, not as I Do" situation > can be irritating. But I guess the best thing to do at this point is > probably to share your thoughts on the experiment through his > dedicated feedback form: > https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/twitter.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHJ6UnYwdFZ6aHNRRVJoTU1mYl9FMlE6MQ > > Arnaud / @rno > > > On May 5, 2011, at 11:56 AM, Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Arnaud, >> >> That's comforting to know. With that being the case, can you please >> enlighten us as to why Twitter is apparently violating its own rules, >> which, as you said, are still in force and we all still are apparently >> expected to adhere to? >> >> Let me help you and quote from your rules the appropriate text: "If >> you are automatically sending @reply messages or Mentions to a bunch >> of users, the recipients must request or approve this action in >> advance." >> >> Have any of the users targeted by @twittersuggests, which is sending >> automated @reply messages "to a bunch of users", explicitly requested >> or approved this action in advance? >> >> If not, then you may have de facto invalidated that section of your >> rules and by implication exempted all developers and applications from >> it. >> >> On May 5, 12:45 pm, Arnaud Meunier <arn...@twitter.com> wrote: >>> Hey Dewald, >>> >>> Neither our TOS nor our Automation Rules & Best Practices >>> (http://support.twitter.com/articles/76915) have changed since the launch >>> of @twittersuggests experimental feature :) >>> >>> Arnaud / @rno <http://twitter.com/rno> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:00 AM, TjL <luo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> With reference to @twittersuggests, is other unsolicited @reply spam >>>>> now also officially sanctioned by Twitter? >>> >>>> When has Twitter ever given you the idea that they were playing by the >>>> same rules as everyone else? >>> >>>> -- >>>> 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 > -- 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
