You can send them new tweets but cannot use the loopholes below to reply to a tweet, so no more contributing to threads. This is a big improvement at first glance (although I can no longer correct nonsense spouted by homeopaths who’ve blocked me). More testing needed but it appears that you can no longer reply to an account that has blocked you. We'll see if UberMedia's Twitter clients are back online as quickly as Gross feels they will be.By 8 September 2017 – it looks like Twitter’s finally fixed this loophole. One source close to TweetDeck hints: "Uber-oogle?" It's possible Twitter worries that Google or Facebook will see buying UberMedia and using it as a toe-hold to launch a Twitter clone as a cheaper alternative to spending $10 billion to buy Twitter.One source says Twitter hates the idea of letting another company control its UX/UI, and doesn't think it needs to be shown how to make money.Accel partner Jim Breyer, who sits on Facebook's board, will now also take a seat on UberMedia's board. Some say the issue is the Facebook influence over UberMedia bothers Twitter.Suspicion in some quarters that Gross is roping all these Twitter apps together to build a network between them that would rival Twitter's.Meanwhile, Business Insider has chimed in with a few more theories about why a "war" (their words) is ongoing: Twitter has requested that we make some small changes to our clients, which we are doing right now, & we will be back live again asap. Additionally, UberMedia's CEO, Bill Gross just Tweeted that We continue to be in contact with UberMedia and hope that they will bring the suspended applications into compliance with our policies soon.Įarlier this week, it was announced that UberMedia raised $17.5 million from Facebook investors Accel Partners. We’ve had conversations with UberMedia, the developer of these applications, about policy violations since April 2010, when they first launched under the name TweetUp – a term commonly used by Twitter users and a trademark violation. These violations include, but aren’t limited to, a privacy issue with private Direct Messages longer than 140 characters, trademark infringement, and changing the content of users’ Tweets in order to make money. Today we suspended several applications, including UberTwitter, twidroyd and UberCurrent, which have violated Twitter policies and trademarks in a variety of ways. This keeps the ecosystem fair for everyone. We often take actions to enforce these rules in fact, on an average day we turn off more than one hundred services that violate our API rules of the road. We ask all developers in Twitter ecosystem to abide by a simple set of rules that are in the interests of our users, as well as the health and vitality of the platform as a whole. We are taking the unusual step of sharing this with you because today’s suspension may affect a larger number of users.Here's how the suspension was explained to TechCrunch: ![]() Generally, these apps are used by a small number of users. We have suspended UberTwitter and twidroyd for violating our policies.Įvery day, we suspend hundreds of applications that are in violation of our policies. Twitter says the following in a help center post: With that, approximately 20 percent of the tweets sent daily are from UberMedia apps, when you include all the other Twitter clients the company has acquired (Echofon, Twidroyd and UberTwitter). ![]() Tweetdeck was recently acquired by UberMedia. Reports from a Twidroyd user indicate that after the ban, he saw only two Tweets: one telling him of the suspension, and one that points him to Twitter's official clients. The suspension appears to have been enforced on Friday, Feb. That is because Twitter has officially suspended those applications, citing policy violations. If you use Twidroyd, UberTwitter, or UberCurrent, you're probably having trouble reading Tweets right about now.
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