[asterisk-users] Twitter is Suing me!!!

[jon pounder]

D. Dante Lorenso wrote:

part of this is making a statement to get publicity, if twitter really 
didn't like what you were doing they'd simply cut off your app accessing 
their servers. But obviously that is not what its about.





> Dean Collins wrote:
>   
>> I received this email 30 minutes ago stating that Twitter is suing me??
>> Basically they feel that my application - www.MyTwitterButler.com 
>> <http://www.mytwitterbutler.com/> does the following.
>> *1/ That anyone using the API to auto follow people are breaching the TOS??*
>> *2/ That no one can use the word “Twitter” in their domain*
>> *3/ That somehow people might be confused my application is related to 
>> twitter even though every page is labeled //*
>>     
>
>
> I'd have to side with Twitter on this one:
>
> 1) From your domain name, I don't know that you aren't part of Twitter(tm)
>
> 2) Your service seems to be trying to circumvent what they are doing 
> rather than just adding value to it.
>
> 3) You are using a Twitter-like bird in your logo at the top.
>
> I bet if you changed your domain name, changed your service name, 
> created a different logo, and stopped infringing on their trade mark 
> you'd be fine.
>
> I'll bet the Twitter TOS grants you rights to their API as long as you 
> are only adding value and not trying to lead customers away from 
> Twitter.  They have the right to put something like that in there TOS.
>
> Then again, your app seems to heavily hit the Twitter API with 20,000 
> API calls an hour?  I bet you don't pay monies to Twitter for all that 
> system usage yet you are making money from sales of your app at $10 per 
> license.  If you sell 10,000 copies of your code, Twitter has to suffer 
> through 20 million API calls per hour (480 BILLION calls per day) and 
> you get to have $100,000.  That doesn't seem fair does it?
>
> -- Dante
>
> ----------
> D. Dante Lorenso
> dante at larkspark.com
> 972-333-4139
>
>
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