Hello,
The Twitter platform has never explained precisely why we have been “restricted” in the past for “unsolicited @mentions?” We never do that. We are planning to relaunch one of the apps, and we would like your opinion as to whether the app will be restricted again. It seems like it doesn’t do anything that many apps haven’t already done.
By retweeting items that authorized users “refer” to a company’s main twitter account by DM, or simply by including a special #tag in each tweet, the app retweets them.
Could there be anything there that would be a violation?
Secondly, we ran this app for over a year with no problems at all, but our developers were also “generally” tweeting via our API, which could have caused the appearance of spam if they were over-mentioning. It is impossible to know for sure what triggered the restrictions since Twitter is never specific. Despite never stating so, Twitter may not want the API ever used for “general” user tweets, so any app that does so will be viewed as spam if it simply over mentions a few @names in their tweets. (This is something millions of users do every day, but not through Twitter’s API). We certainly pray this isn’t the case, because that would mean no app can ever help the user compose threads or massage text in any way if the text must be posted via the api. But, alas, we can’t know. The only thing we can think of as a possible cause of “unsolicited mentions” is to never write apps that send general tweets on the user’s behalf. Our situation would be disastrous, but we must know.
Any theories are welcome.
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