Twitter on Friday suspended three major mobile third party applications for allegedly violating the company’s use policies.
The social networking company announced in a blog post that it cut off UberTwitter, which is for the Blackberry platform, Twidroyd, for Android devices, and UberCurrent, which can be used on iPhones and iPads. All three are owned by UberMedia, which has been in the news recently because it’s planning to acquire popular Twitter client TweetDeck.
To complicate matters, TweetDeck competes directly with Twitter’s Web and mobile clients.
“Today, we suspended several applications, including UberTwitter, Twidroyd and UberCurrent, which have violated Twitter policies and trademarks in a variety of ways,” wrote Twitter spokeswoman Carolyn Penner, in an e-mail to Computerworld.
“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.”
Penner added that Twitter has been talking with UberMedia about the violations since April. “We continue to be in contact with UberMedia and hope that they will bring the suspended applications into compliance with our policies soon,” she said.
UberMedia did not respond to a request for comment.
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