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<div>I went though this with Yahoo in the early 2000s. Their basic argument is that their mark is included in your mark and they want your domain. They are domain bullies. I went ahead and purchased your app because it sounded pretty cool. I wish the best for you.</div>
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<p><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">This isn’t asterisk related but I figure several developers on this list have built apps for Twitter (or other 3<sup>rd</sup> party API’s).</span></font><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Just found out a few hours ago I’m being sued by Twitter</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Feel free to tweet this link ( <a href="http://www.mytwitterbutler.com/I'm_Being_Sued" target="_blank">www.MyTwitterButler.com/I’m_Being_Sued</a> ) or forward on the link to any journalists you know.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">If you are on dig here’s a dig link. <a href="http://digg.com/software/My_Twitter_Butler_I_m_Being_Sued" target="_blank">http://digg.com/software/My_Twitter_Butler_I_m_Being_Sued</a> </span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Dean Collins<br></span></font><font color="black" size="1" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt"><a href="mailto:dean@MyTwitterButler.com?subject=I'm%20being%20Sued" target="_blank">dean@MyTwitterButler.com</a><br>
+1-212-203-4357 New York<br>+61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial).<br>+44-20-3129-6001 (London in-dial).</span></font></p>
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<b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, August 11, 2009 10:37 PM<br><b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</span></b> Twitter is Suing me!!!</span></font><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">So not only are Twitter fighting battles with Russian hackers they are now fighting their own third party API developer community !!</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I received this email 30 minutes ago stating that Twitter is suing me??</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Basically they feel that my application - <a href="http://www.mytwitterbutler.com/" target="_blank">www.MyTwitterButler.com</a> does the following.</span></font></p>
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<p><b><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">1/ That anyone using the API to auto follow people are breaching the TOS??</span></font></b></p>
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<p><b><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">2/ That no one can use the word “Twitter” in their domain</span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-WEIGHT: bold">3/ That somehow people might be confused my application is related to twitter even though every page is labeled <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"></span></i></span></font></b></p>
<p><i><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">“</span></font></i><i><font color="black"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic; COLOR: black">Copyright 2009 © My Twitter Butler - Not related in anyway to Twitter Inc, if I owned Twitter would i be spending my time building this app??</span></font></i></p>
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<p><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Is this the end for Twitter 3<sup>rd</sup> party developers?</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Have they forgotten that it was people like me who saw a need and built an application using the publicly defined Twitter API to add value to the Twitter ecosystem?</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I have asked Twitters lawyers for a conference call tomorrow to clear up ‘WHY’ they feel anyone using the twitter API to auto follow people is an illegal act and will be looking forward to their answers about ‘WHY’ the twitter API was built in the first place if they want to sue people for using it.</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" size="2" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Dean Collins<br></span></font><font color="black" size="1" face="Arial"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><a href="mailto:dean@MyTwitterButler.com" target="_blank">dean@MyTwitterButler.com</a> <br>
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