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Earnie Boyd wrote:
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cite="mid:20090812155346.13814e61msvke944@mail.siebunlimited.com"
type="cite">I understood from the letter content that they are willing
to work with Dean to transfer the domain to twitter.com. They may even
work a deal with you for the rights of your software. Don't burn the
bridge before you cross over it. Find out what Twitter is willing to
do. Get yourself a good lawyer. They may even be willing to give you
a contract to maintain the site with changes.
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Noooo no, they meant for Dean to give up rights to mytwitterbutler.com
and transfer it to Twitter's ownership. They don't want to work
anything out except mytwitterbutler.com being gone. It's a pretty
standard C&D. <br>
<br>
For those of you who didn't go see what mytwitterbutler does, it's a
standalone Windows app that does two things:<br>
1) Automatically follows people based on keyword, and<br>
2) Send Direct Messages to everyone on your list, all at once.<br>
<br>
I can think of a couple legitimate uses for this, but the spammy uses
far outweigh the legit ones in my head. Couple that with the following
instructions from the faq:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.mytwitterbutler.com/FAQ.html">http://www.mytwitterbutler.com/FAQ.html</a><br>
<blockquote>How Do I Increase API Limits ? -<br>
<br>
You visit whitelisting request form basically if you indicate you are a
developer and are "testing a rest api" application they will approve
your IP address to 20,000 calls per hour.<br>
<br>
DO NOT SAY YOU ARE USING TWITTER BUTLER - otherwise they wont approve
your request.<br>
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Good on Twitter for combating spam applications, I say.<br>
<br>
-D<br>
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