TWITTER TIGHTENS GRIP

I have been using a service for several months now to follow/unfollow people. It is a GREAT way to get to know a lot of people. I have watched two companies change their business processes to keep up with Twitter’s changing rules. I am seeing the third company go through it now. Here’s what they said. By the way, this is a great piece of software:

Why Buzzom is not working ? – Buzzom Update

Posted on April 18th, 2010 lkhatiwada 4 comments

Dear Buzzom Users,

Since April 17th, Saturday, 2010 Buzzom’s system is down and we are really sorry for the inconvenience. We really want to be open about the case, hence we would like all our users to stay with us till the problem is resolved.

The main reason behind the shutdown of Buzzom’s system is Twitter’s new rules and regulations regarding Autmation. The new rules of Twitter doesn’t allow any automatic following and unfollowing, and there has been many news of twitter users getting suspended for aggressively following and unfollowing.

This case has brought Twitter’s attention to Buzzom which basically allows user to manage their twitter account. Initially, we had a bulk unfollow and follow option which is no longer running. It was removed as requested by Twitter.

But now, our one more feature of following 50 person in one GO has been questioned. As a result, Twitter has stopped responding authentication from Buzzom’s system. We are in close talk with Twitter to restart our service and bring new changes to the system so that it doesn’t violate any terms and conditions.

We have made all the required changes to the system and are eagerly waiting for response from Twitter. Once we get the Green signal, our services will be back on service.

We are indebt to all our users who have showed their interest and love to the service and we continue to serve better in future.

Thank You,

Deep Sherchan

Chief Marketing Officer, InRev Systems

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THIS IS MY COMMENT to the post:

Mike Bitter Your comment is awaiting moderation. April 19th, 2010 at 08:52

Although I don’t like it, Twitter is trying to maintain the “social” side of their software by controlling Twitter users “Following” activities. For those of us that know how to build and maintain a qualified vs quantified following, we pay the price. I watched as two other companies had to change their “bulk” follow/unfollow procedures to align with Twitter rules so they could stay in business. I think I know what your new service will look like and it will make it harder on those of us that know what we’re doing. Twitter needs to remember, some people can command 100s of people, some can command 1000s. Shouldn’t we be able to decide our own capabilities?

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