The Cheat Tweet Anti-Pattern

Have you signed up for a Twitter application or service, then discovered it posted to your Twitter feed without explicit permission? This is definitely bad Twitter behavior. Let the user evaluate your app/service and tweet to their followers, after they have deemed your app/service useful.

I’m naming this the “cheat tweet anti-pattern.”

Apps & Services using cheat tweet anti-pattern

http://twtlab.com/love – Suggests Twitter users you “love” and tweets automatically after you authorize access
Cheat tweet: “My favorite users are @user123 @user124 @user125 ! Perhaps this is love ;) http://twtlab.com/love

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