Comments on: I Should Have Heeded My Own Advice About Twitter

By: Twitter Starts the Chatter on API Guidelines | Stay N' Alive

Twitter Starts the Chatter on API Guidelines | Stay N' Alive — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 01:08:06 +0000

[...] heels of a much broader Terms of Service launched for the general Twitter user today. I’ve long discussed the need for such guidelines, as many developers are embarking on an unknown adventure when writing [...]

By: birkin

birkin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:54:08 +0000

hope you will success,that way, we have more bussiness by ourselves, jessestay.

By: Taking a Stand on Twitter’s Auto-DM Policy #endautodm | Stay N' Alive

Taking a Stand on Twitter’s Auto-DM Policy #endautodm | Stay N' Alive — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 23:11:31 +0000

[...] be very hard to require all apps to identify themselves via a developer Terms Of Service (I’ve talked about this before), either by OAuth or some other means, and then provide the tools necessary to allow users to opt [...]

By: outdoor sinks

outdoor sinks — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:56:36 +0000

Twitter maid our life very easy…using twitter we can do anything.

Thanks

By: Twitter Auto-Follow Limits Rankle Some | rapid-DEV.net

Twitter Auto-Follow Limits Rankle Some | rapid-DEV.net — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:07:19 +0000

[...] third-party developers don’t like it, but I think for those being limited to following 365,000 new people per year, life will go [...]

By: Twitter Proposes The Release Of API Limits, Tweet Metadata, Becoming Your Online Identity, And More | Twittercism

Wed, 27 May 2009 11:19:31 +0000

[...] Twitter themselves have done this several times to developers in the [...]

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:18:06 +0000

Thanks for the tip re: Dev list – just updated my membership to get email in hopes that I'll catch this next time.

By: jessestay

jessestay — Thu, 07 May 2009 07:13:13 +0000

Thanks Greg – I just wrote about this. I thought about this earlier, but it
didn't register to me how many people this was affecting. I also just
noticed the discussion going on in the Dev List. Now I've got to go check
out SocialToo's e-mail forwards. I don't think many people are using them,
but they would have definitely been affected.

By: Oops, Twitter Does it Again | Stay N' Alive

Oops, Twitter Does it Again | Stay N' Alive — Thu, 07 May 2009 06:08:38 +0000

[...] app are now broken because they were relying on the plain-text format of the new DM e-mails. In my previous post about Twitter doing this, Greg commented, stating, “When I first read this post last month I [...]

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 07 May 2009 05:49:10 +0000

Today, without any warning, Twitter switched from text/plain emails for direct messages and new follows to a multi-part mime format with HTML and plain text. Needless to say, if you'd previous coded a direct message bot to work off of email parsing, your bot was now broken.

When I first read this post last month I though, “well, if you code your application well, it should take into account potential changes from Twitter.” I also thought that Twitter would warn us about bigger changes. Wrong on both counts. Good post, Jesse.