Wednesday, July 3, 2013

Twitter bans auto-following and bulk following in new developer updates

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Twitter just announced a series of updates to its guidelines for third-party developers, and some of the changes should noticeably impact ordinary users. Twitter is now barring third-party apps from forcing users to automatically follow the apps' official Twitter accounts, and is also officially prohibiting developers from creating programs that follow other accounts in bulk. The company is also cracking down on sites and services that host raw users' Twitter data.


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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/3/4491350/twitter-bans-auto-following-and-bulk-following-in-new-developer

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