If you’re an avid UberTwitter user on the BlackBerry or TwiDroyd user on your Android phone, you might want to look for a new Twitter client: the company blocked both apps from accessing user’s Twitter accounts today for “violating our policies,” according to a new article
at the Twitter Help Center. They also point out that every day they suspend hundreds of apps that breach their policies, but the only reason they’re talking about this one is because they know both apps have a large number of users.
According to
a post over at TechCrunch, the flap started back in April of 2010, when Twitter initially approached UberMedia — the company that owns UberTwitter, TwiDroyd, and a number of other Twitter clients -about its alleged policy violations. A Twitter spokesperson says that the list of violations is long, and includes, but isn’t limited to: “privacy issue with private Direct Messages longer than 140 characters, trademark infringement, and changing the content of users’ Tweets in order to make money.”
They note that they’re still in contact with them, but stop short of saying the action could be reversed. Ultimately, the post concludes by suggesting Twitter users download the official Twitter clients for Android, Blackberry, or iPhone instead.
Update: A Twitter spokesperson contacted us with a statement on the matter. He said:
“We ask all developers in the Twitter ecosystem to abide by a simple set of rules that are in the interests of our users, as well as the health and vitality of the platform as a whole.
We often take actions to enforce these rules; in fact, on an average day we turn off more than one hundred services that violate our API rules of the road. This keeps the ecosystem fair for everyone.
Today we suspended several applications, including UberTwitter, twidroyd and UberCurrent, which have violated Twitter policies and trademarks in a variety of ways. These violations include, but aren’t limited to, a privacy issue with private Direct Messages longer than 140 characters, trademark infringement, and changing the content of users’ Tweets in order to make money.
We’ve had conversations with UberMedia, the developer of these applications, about policy violations since April 2010, when they first launched under the name TweetUp – a term commonly used by Twitter users and a trademark violation. We continue to be in contact with UberMedia and hope that they will bring the suspended applications into compliance with our policies soon.”
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