During the last evening, Twitter made the decision to suspend the UberTwitter, Twidroyd and Echofon applications, prohibiting them from using the Twitter APIs for an unlimited period of time. The Twitter company accused the developers of these applications of violating the rules regarding the use of the Twitter brand, violating the rules regarding the limitation of direct messages to only 140 characters and modifying the messages of users by including advertisements. The company that produces all 3 suspended applications is called UberMedia and announced that an update for each of them will be available in the near future in the AppStore and UberTwitter will change its name to UberSocial.
Until then, the applications should have limited functionality, so if you notice that one of the 3 is not working, then you know what the cause is. If an update appears in the AppStore for any of the 2 iOS applications, I recommend that you install it because it will solve the problem with the Twitter functionality. In the meantime you can use the application Twitter, which I warmly recommend.
We ask all developers in the Twitter ecosystem to abide by a simple set of rules that are in the interests of our users, as well as the health and vitality of the platform as a whole.
We often take actions to enforce these rules; in fact, on an average day we turn off more than one hundred services that violate our API rules of the road. This keeps the ecosystem fair for everyone.
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.
We've had conversations with UberMedia, the developer of these applications, about policy violations since April 2010, when they first launched under the name TweetUp – a term commonly used by Twitter users and a trademark violation. We continue to be in contact with UberMedia and hope that they will bring the suspended applications into compliance with our policies soon.
