Twitter Adds New Terms of Service to Its Developer Platform
There has been a lot of news about Twitter’s new features, @anywhere, a coming social graph API, and their new developer website. One thing that hasn’t been mentioned however is something that gives me great joy. Every single developer that signs up for the platform is asked to agree to a very thorough, new, terms […]
Read more...Rumors Abound as Tweet Scheduling Services are Targeted by Twitter
Several Twitter developers are reporting that Twitter is now targeting scheduling services with its new Terms of Service and Policy Enforcement team. The threats come down to a clause in the Terms of Service stating users accounts could be shut down “If [they] post duplicate content over multiple accounts or multiple duplicate updates on one account”. […]
Read more...Twitter Starts the Chatter on API Guidelines
On the Twitter development mailing list today Twitter began discussion on rules developers should abide by when writing applications for the Twitter API. Such terms come on the 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 […]
Read more...I Should Have Heeded My Own Advice About Twitter
About a full year ago, I wrote of developers leaving the Twitter development platform due to Twitter consistently removing features, making changes without warning developers, and effectively putting developers out of business with just a single change of policy. I advised other developers to be careful building a business model around Twitter, adding that it […]
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