Twitter Bans Popular Mobile Apps for Violating Policies

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Many users today are having issues logging into their Twitter accounts from mobile apps UberTwitter, Echofon, and Twitdroyd. According to Twitter itself, there's a really good reason for that. They've suspended the apps from the service for violation of Twitter's policies. The remedy? Twitter says you should use the official apps.

Twitter's official statement on the issue says the apps were kicked for a privacy issue involving Direct Messages over 140 characters, trademark violation, and for altering user tweets to make money. On the issue of trademark violation, apparently Twitter doesn't like the use of the term TweetUp by UberMedia (developer of UberTwitter and Twitdroyd). The full extent of issues in Echofon are not yet clear.

If you take Twitter's word for it, they've been telling the developers about these issues for months, and this is their last recourse. If so, the devs are to blame for not fixing the issues and leaving their paying users out in the cold. Since this is being called a suspension, not an outright ban, we assume these apps can find their way back to Twitter's good graces. In the meantime, it's an opportunity for competing apps to gain users.

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