<a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twitter">http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twitter</a><br><br>have you actually violated anything ?? IP my ass... you simply used their published API and wrote an application which might be better then theirs, simply reply by asking them to state explicitly, what parts of the terms of services you violated, and no you should not have to simply just turn over the domain name because they used a workd from websters dictionary which just happens to be part of your domain name.... hell i could register a <a href="http://abirdtwitters.com">abirdtwitters.com</a> ... a site about songs from various species around the world... go ahead... sue me... bring it on...... be very polite with your request, or have an attorney do it for you.... best proactices are always thru legal means.... who knows you might have "stumbledupon" ( LOL ) future things they were thinking about or considereing and beat them too it.... at least validate this isnt an idle threat and their letter actually merits some review, dont let it be scare tactics to drive technology you wrote based on their API into the ground <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:28 AM, Dean Collins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Dean@cognation.net">Dean@cognation.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">This isn’t asterisk related but I
figure several developers on this list have built apps for Twitter (or other 3<sup>rd</sup>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Just found out a few hours ago I’m
being sued by Twitter</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Feel free to tweet this link ( <a href="http://www.mytwitterbutler.com/I%27m_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" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">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>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Regards,</span></font><font color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial; color: black;"></span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Dean Collins<br>
</span></font><font color="black" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><a href="mailto:dean@MyTwitterButler.com?subject=I%27m%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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<p><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> Dean Collins <br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, August 11, 2009
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">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" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">I received this email 30 minutes ago
stating that Twitter is suing me??</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">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" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; 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" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-weight: bold;">2/ That
no one can use the word “Twitter” in their domain</span></font></b></p>
<p><b><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; 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" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black; font-style: italic;">“</span></font></i><i><font color="black"><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;">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" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"> </span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Is this the end for Twitter 3<sup>rd</sup>
party developers?</span></font></p>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">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" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">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" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><a href="http://www.mytwitterbutler.com/I%27m_Being_Sued" target="_blank">www.MyTwitterButler.com/I’m_Being_Sued</a>
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<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Regards,</span></font><font color="black" face="Arial" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"></span></font></p>
<p><font color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">Dean Collins<br>
</span></font><font color="black" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><a href="mailto:dean@MyTwitterButler.com" target="_blank">dean@MyTwitterButler.com</a>
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+1-212-203-4357 New York</span></font><font color="black" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;"><br>
+61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney
in-dial).<br>
+44-20-3129-6001 (London
in-dial).</span></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span></font></p>
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