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While modifying some ASP.NET user controls I'm responsible for to conform to Twitter's new API requirements, I came across this...
No other social or 3rd party actions similar to Follow, Reply, Retweet and Favorite may be attached to a Tweet.
I guess that means that if you made a "retweet" button that posted to Twitter AND other social networks (e.g., Facebook, App.net), you'd be in violation of the API requirements and your account could be disabled. That seems pretty anti-competitive to me; I really hope somebody sues Twitter for their ridiculous requirements.
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May be attached to a Tweet? What does that even mean? I guess they don't want someone to basically start hijacking tweets? You think you're tweeting but they are only going to "twinter" my new knockoff.
modified 28-Jan-13 18:10pm.
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Well, the requirements are geared toward developers like me who are displaying tweets from their company inline on their company's website (imagine a feature on a homepage that displays the most recent tweets).
They want very strict control over exactly what that inline display looks like, and what can be done with it (e.g., you must have a button to allow a user to reply to the tweet, but that button can't also allow the user to post that reply to some other site).
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In the specific example you pointed out, I think that is a good thing that they do that. It keeps what integrity that there is of a tweet from being compromised.
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Say you are a member of both Twitter and Facebook, and my company posts an interesting video (say, Mr. Rogers fighting Chuck Norris) in its Twitter feed, and we then display that Twitter feed on the company website (say, NorrisVsRogers.com). Why shouldn't we create a button that will allow you to simultaneously post that video to your account on Twitter and Facebook (maybe when it posts to Facebook it automatically links back to the Twitter post too), if you so choose? And how would that compromise the tweet?
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Chuck against a creep who scares children by singing while taking off his stinky shoes?
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AspDotNetDev wrote: you must have a button to allow a user to reply to the tweet, but that button can't also allow the user to post that reply to some other site
So use two buttons.
It's not an unreasonable demand, anyway, given that it's in the business-use arena.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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