Third-Party Twitter Developer Sued By Twitter

Re:Third-Party Twitter Developer Sued By Twitter by deancollins on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @01:42AM (#757381)

Hi Guys,

Yes bad choice of words 'sued' - threatened with legal action is a better choice of words, sorry first time being 'threatened with legal action so freaking out.

this isn't a case of "change the name" they are telling me to stop selling the software!!

So tweetlater, twollow, twollo etc etc Did they also receive the same email tonight?

You know as much as i do from the pdf.

As for the domain name - someone on the twitter dev list ran a quick search. They stopped counting at 21 names.

A quick Google search reveals...

twittercounter.com twitterfall.com twitter-friends.com www.twitter.ca www.tinytwitter.com www.twitterbuttons.com www.accessibletwitter.com twitterfeed.com twitterpatterns.com www.twitterlocal.net www.twitterbackgrounds.com twittergallery.com twitteranalyzer.com whentwitterisdown.com destroytwitter.com blog.twittervotereport.com twitter.pbworks.com twitter.polldaddy.com twitter.alltop.com twitter.infinityward.com twitter.grader.com

and the list goes on...

I'm open to all suggestion on how to handle this legally without costing money - lol i gave the application away for the first month, just started charging as had so many requests.

Would prefer not to stop using it/selling it as plenty of people are finding it beneficial.

Cheers, [email protected]

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Re:Third-Party Twitter Developer Sued By Twitter by webwright on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @01:56AM (#757413)

You use their NAME. Not just a 'tw'. If I launched "ToyotaButler,com" tomorrow, do you think it'd be reasonable for them to gripe about the name? From a purely legal standpoint, they HAVE TO DO THIS to everyone who uses their trademark ("twitter") or it weakens the trademark for when they NEED to defend it.

You are on their platform. They don't like how you're using their platform and consider it spammy. Microsoft would have a right to ban a "Virus Construction Kit" or "Spam Generator" from Windows, right? While you aren't on that level, it's a subjective judgment and they are in charge. Just because people want to pay for it doesn't mean it's good for their ecosystem. I'm sure I could sell the hell out of a Virus Construction Kit, for example. :-)

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Re:Third-Party Twitter Developer Sued By Twitter by andrewf on Wednesday August 12, 2009 @03:45AM (#757562)

This is apparently a direct response from the person who wrote the article. Agree with him or not, the post is relevant.

I don't think downmodding is appropriate.

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