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4. You will not attempt or encourage others to: A. sell, rent, lease, sublicense, redistribute, or syndicate the Twitter API or Twitter Content to a

• mlinsey 16y ago
  We don't believe that spreadsheets of data about your own Twitter account are a useful way to "develop an additional product or service" and that's not how we're pitching the feature. This feature is based on requests from several professional social media managers among our beta users, who wanted a way of exporting the data to give their management reports on their Twitter usage. If we find out that anyone is paying to download our spreadsheets for the purpose of re-importing the spreadsheets to build their own Twitter-related product or service, we will take appropriate action. Thanks for the note of caution, though. There are risks to developing a service on top of a third-party platform, and we strive to maintain a good relationship with Twitter to mitigate those risks.
  • tibbon 16y ago
    We were doing similar with the 140kit and got shut down fyi. We were making it easier for the average person to access their streaming API and we were adding value through additional data analysis and graphs. Twitter wants to make money now it seems from the data, and is realizing that its a commodity for them to control tighter. I thought we had developed a good working relationship with Twitter and their API team, but it doesn't seem that was the case.