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Twitter API ToS To Force Routing Clicks To Twitter

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the too-big-for-their-britches dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Twitter has announced that it will change the way it handles URLs in tweets. This has been widely reported, including the likely consequences for bit.ly. What has not received much attention, and was not in the official blog announcement (but in the Google Twitter developers mailing list instead) is that the Terms of Service for all applications that use the Twitter API will be changed to require that any click on a URL in a tweet be routed through a Twitter gateway, allowing Twitter to see exactly which links are followed and by whom."

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  1. Re:Some good can come from this by Spad · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ah, blacklists, the age old method of making sure people don't visit sites that you think are bad for them.

  2. Re:Some good can come from this by ShadowRangerRIT · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Better than whitelists, where people decide what's good for you.

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  3. Re:Some good can come from this by Spad · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, and a punch in the face is arguably better than a kick in the balls :)

  4. Learnign from the pros... by VendettaMF · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Hey guys, you know how Facebook's been getting away with screwing over the entire world on privacy issues?"
    "Uh, yeah?"
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    "Well...Why don't we..."
    "Ohhhhhhhh!"

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  5. Re:All your tweets by Alsee · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't use twitter.
    I don't want to catch chirpies.
    It's a canarial disease.
    It's untweetable.

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