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. PT on Friday with comment from Bill Gross.If you use Twidroyd, UberTwitter, or UberCurrent, you're probably having trouble reading Tweets right about now. "We began a process of changing the name three weeks ago by polling our users, and we've decided based on their input to change the product name to UberSocial, which we completed today." "Twitter also asked us to modify the name of UberTwitter," Gross wrote. Twitter has assured us that as soon as those changes were complete, they would reactivate our applications."īut one of those changes addresses the trademark infringement that Twitter mentioned: UberTwitter's name. "As a result, we have completed the changes, and new apps are currently being posted to their respective stores. UberMedia CEO Bill Gross released a statement later on Friday to say that the apps are coming back: "We were immediately in touch with Twitter, and the changes they asked us to make were very small," he wrote. Twitter has earned plenty of developer ire for its release of official products that will likely quash those offered by independent players in its historically vibrant developer community, and its policing of third-party applications that include the word "twit" or "tweet" has had plenty of opponents as well.īut if UberMedia's tactics are as shady as Twitter seems to allege they are, that's a problem.
The undercurrent here is that UberMedia is also positioning itself as a business threat to Twitter, seeing as it's one of the few owners of powerful Twitter applications that compete with the ones that Twitter itself has begun to offer, and therefore could actually dissuade users from Twitter's official products ( and revenue streams). "We continue to be in contact with UberMedia and hope that they will bring the suspended applications into compliance with our policies soon." "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," the statement continued. "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," a statement from Twitter explained. The microblogging service has suspended its apps, which include mobile clients UberTwitter, Echofon, and Twidroyd, as well as an advertising product, citing a number of violations. A company called UberTwitter that operates a suite of third-party Twitter applications-and hopes to do much more, with $17.5 million in new funding and the planned acquisition of popular client TweetDeck-has apparently run afoul of Twitter big-time.
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