disabled

The Twitter Takedown Begins: Goodnight MyTwitterButler.com

Picture 40

The crocodile tears are streaming down the Joker’s face at the prospect that a mass-follow, mass-spam, mass-crapola “app” is going down the tubes. Dear MyTwitterButler.com, sorry so sorry, you’re toast. RIP! Below are the salient points from the Twitter PDF that is posted on the site.

Picture 37

Now saying that everyone is doing it is a pretty lame defense. My guess is the Tweet Police are working their way around to The Joker site and all of the JokerNetwork affiliates… as we speak. And it will sadden none of us here as the Tweet-Crap-Apps begin to go dark. One such app, August’s Award Winner TweetFlash would be our pick for next to go.

From the actual PDF provided by the MyTwitterButler folks here is the language that is most exciting to us:

Picture 42

Oh boy. The Auto-Bots are on notice and we couldn’t be happier.

Good night sweet Butler how we never missed ye!

@jmacofearth
permalink: http://www.twitterjoker.com/twitter-takedown

Additional Links:

Share the Smiles:
  • del.icio.us
  • Facebook
  • StumbleUpon
  • Yahoo! Buzz
  • Digg
  • Google Bookmarks
  • BarraPunto
  • TwitThis
  • LinkedIn
  • Reddit
  • Tumblr
  • Twitter

3 Responses to “The Twitter Takedown Begins: Goodnight MyTwitterButler.com”

  1. Dean Collins - August 13, 2009

    ha ha ha, look who is the ‘joker’

    You forgot (or chose not to) complete the rest of Twitters TOS.

    “…..So please, spend your time developing something that helps users find people with interesting connections.”

    My application was built to find people tweeting about MLB baseball games, I am more than comfortable that this meets the ‘interesting connections’ standard.

    Yes some people may use it to spam people but thats an issue for Twitter to take up with the individual account holders.

    It would be like if you broke the speed limit in your Ford then the Police going after ford instead of the driver of the car.

    Remember http://www.MyTwitterButler.com doesn’t allow anyone to do anything that cant already be done manually on the twitter website only faster.

    Cheers,
    Dean

    Cheers,
    Dean Collins
    http://www.MyTwitterButler.com

  2. jmacofearth - August 14, 2009

    Cheers Dean, back at ya.

    Calling me a joker is pretty funny. */bows/* Thank you.

    Here’s what you say, “Yes some people may use it to spam people but thats an issue for Twitter to take up with the individual account holders.”

    Actually what Twitter is saying is it’s taking it up with YOU and YOUR app. Sure nothing you are doing is prohibited. But neither are the porn dealers who are flooding the tweetstream with asian girls following and inviting folks to their “private” web cams. Heck, even that’s not illegal.

    And yes radar detectors are sold for the purpose of allowing people to use their cars designed to go 120mph. But they don’t “legally” sell radar jammers.

    Your application is a Twitter-Jammer and I’d just as soon joke it on its way than suffer through your “individual account holders” that are using your app for abusive behavior.

    Good luck with your campaign to stay online.

    the joker smiles

  3. dean collins - October 18, 2009

    I wanted to send you a quick note to bring you up to speed on the legal issues facing http://www.MyTwitterButler.com

    As most of you know on August 11th I received a “cease and desist” letter from Twitters lawyers stating I had 14 days to hand over the domain, destroy all copies of the source code and to cease selling the MyTwitterButler application forever.

    Basically they said the API was too powerful for end people to use directly and people should be using the Twitter web site if they wanted to follow people (I’m paraphrasing in my own words).

    I’ve had two conference calls with Twitters lawyers and got my own legal advice and whilst I was inagreement to change the domain name (but not giving it away!!, I was just going to do a redirection) I wasn’t going to stop using or selling the MyTwitterButler software.

    Basically all of you deserve the right to interact with Twitter in a way that brings value to the Twitter community.

    As such……

    I’m back baby, “bigger and badder” than before – http://www.MyTwitterButler.com is now http://www.MyPostButler.com feel free to tweet it on, lawyers suck !!

    The application is now called http://www.MyPostButler.com and as you can see it has a new kick butt function that allows you to “Bulk Unfollow Users”

    If you have any questions feel free to get in touch.

    Regards,
    Dean Collins
    http://www.MyPostButler.com

Leave a Reply