UberTwitter and Twidroyd Suspended for Policy Violations

[hornokplease]

http://support.twitter.com/articles/452648-i-m-having-problems-logging-in-to-ubertwitter-or-twidroyd

[bradleyjoyce]

For this to be respectable on Twitter's part, they should have outlined what policy violations were committed.

As someone who has a number of twitter apps, all this does is make me feel even more afraid of twitter's increasingly hostile attitude toward their developer community

[abraham → bradleyjoyce]

Twitter has always held policy violations close to their chest. I have seen numerous complaints from developers about lack of clarification.

[jdeeringdavis → bradleyjoyce]

Marshall Kirkpatrick (of ReadWriteWeb) tweeted that Twitter suspended UberTwitter for "changing tweets to monetize, trademark infringement, privacy issues with DMs."

Marshall's original tweet: http://twitter.com/#!/marshallk/status/38679317034565632

[hornokplease]

Coincidental timing? Twitter is also running a Promoted Trend for @TwitterMobile today:

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http://twitter.com/#!/twitter/status/38350069627359232

[andre3k1]

Both owned by UberMedia, who last week raised a huge round of funding and purchased TweetDeck.