Monday, February 21, 2011

Twitter temporarily blocks and applications Twitdroyd UberSocial

The social network Twitter has suspended four third-party applications for accessing its services, Friday, Feb. 18, before returning its decision for two of them. Twidroyd applications (for Android phones) and Blackberry UberSocial will again be allowed, while the return of the iPhone application is still considered by ÜberMedia Twitter.

"Whatever your means of access to Twitter, it is our mission to make our service more quickly and reliably. Part of this mission requires to follow certain rules to protect our users and the health and vitality Platform Twitter as a whole, "explained Twitter on his blog that provides daily suspend" hundreds of applications.

" According to Bill Gross, founder of ÜberMedia, Twitter blamed its first third-party applications exceed the number of one hundred forty characters per message. The application originally called "UberTwitter", has also been renamed "UberSocial. APPLICATIONS FOR COMPETITION But this temporary suspension is indicative of the evolution of Twitter.

Since its inception in 2006, the site was initially only focused on his message flow, leaving it to third-party applications to provide services that are essential as the search engine, shorter URLs, or even sharing photographs. But aware that these applications generate more traffic, especially on mobile calls since 2010 Twitter users to use its official applications.

The initiative's website micromessages qu'UberMedia is also involved when creating an ecosystem of applications becoming larger. Having bought Echofon, allowing access to Twitter from the Firefox Web browser, the company of Bill Gross is in talks to buy Tweetdeck, another third-party application very popular.

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