May we suggest:
Alert on Twitter Policy Enforcement! I recently had a bout with Twitter over a couple OAuth’s I’m using for re-posting posts from my various blogs. Basically, they suspended two of my apps citing unspecified violations as follows:
Your application was suspended from interacting with the Twitter API because it violates our API Terms of Service (http://dev.twitter.com/pages/api_terms), and specifically our Automation Rules (http://support.twitter.com/articles/76915) in regards to automated following and unfollowing as well as automated affiliate marketing. This encourages users to violate the Twitter Rules (http://support.twitter.com/articles/18311).
Please check out the full email at http://bit.ly/hQel46
The more entertaining aspect of their abuse of power is the suspension of my second app, which was used only for logging in with Twitter credentials on one of my websites. It was not used for any automation at all.
Furthermore, Twitter claimed that I was specifically violating automatic follow and unfollow with my apps. The truth is, I do not use either of them to follow and unfollow, I use a free, online service that handles following people who follow me and unfollowing them if they stop following me.
Why on earth would Twitter care anyway? They are far from reaching a level of serious use – most everyone on there does what I do or they are writing about useless things, which is what Twitter was founded upon anyway.
Is Twitter trying to liken themselves to Facebook? It is not going to happen, so if you’re a Twitter investor or potential one, I would pull the plug unless you want to bet on their advertising revenue alone. There’s nothing “quality” about their service despite the fact that they make rules up as if they are to be taken seriously.