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Twitter Suspends UberMedia Clients For Privacy And Monetization Violations, Trademark Infringement

Posted on February 19, 2011 by pogowasright.org

Leena Rao writes:

Well this is interesting. According to this post, Twitter has suspended UberTwitter and Twidroyd for violating its policies.

The action is even more fascinating considering that UberMedia, which operates UberTwitter and Twidroyd, is building an army of third-party Twitter clients, including Tweetdeck, that compete directly with Twitter’s web and mobile clients.

[…]

Today we suspended several applications, including UberTwitter, twidroyd and UberCurrent, which have violated Twitter policies and trademarks in a variety of ways. 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.

Read more on TechCrunch.

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