Hundreds of thousands of developers who use our API daily do so within the framework we set up, without the need for close oversight, threats or actions that impact users. While we don’t pre-review every application the way, say, Apple does in its App Store, that is no excuse to violate the rules or see what you can get away with. If you use the API that we support at great cost with our infrastructure and engineers, you sign up to abide by the rules for its use. We will review UberSocial for iPhone and UberCurrent, two other applications suspended on Friday, when they are provided to us.ĭevelopers using the Twitter API have a responsibility not to violate the rules designed to protect our users and the long-term health and vitality of the Twitter platform. We will review these applications on an ongoing basis for compliance. Our initial review indicates that steps have been taken to remedy the violations for these applications.
“Today Twitter reinstated access to the applications twidroyd and UberSocial for Blackberry (formerly UberTwitter), which were suspended two days ago for policy violations. Twitter has given us the following statement: The iPhone apps UberCurrent and UberSocial (formerly UberTwitter) have not yet been sent to Twitter for review. No word yet on whether the apps are actually functioning as it’s now up to UberMedia developers to provide updates, and users will have to download the new versions of the apps in order to see tweets. When the developer updates twidroyd and Ubersocial, you’ll be able to download their updates to access Tweets again on these applications.” “We’ve given the developers of twidroyd and UberSocial for Blackberry (formerly UberTwitter) access to the Twitter API again. In the their return, Blackberry client UberTwitter will be changing its name to UberSocial and Android app twidroyd will be making no name changes - Both have complied with Twitter’s requests to remedy the offending violations.
Looks like Bill Gross’ UberMedia has had its API access reinstated for at least two of its apps this Sunday afternoon, after a dramatic turn of events led to them being shut down on Friday under the auspices of privacy, monetization and trademark violations.
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