Refollow

Good news - OAuth is back!

After some constructive discussions with the Twitter API Support group, Twitter has lifted the suspension and re-enabled OAuth for Refollow. We discussed some valid concerns that Refollow could be used as a tool for spammers to aggressively follow and target users. The challenge is that it’s the same user experience that enables the non-spammers to discover interesting people and help narrow down those they would like to follow or unfollow.

We agreed to add some features to the next release to help limit aggressive following (which will ultimately cause Twitter to suspend an account anyway), and to think about ways to help catch/discourage spammers. Definitely continue to crowd-tag the spammers within Refollow since that’s a great filter to avoid following them by accident. If anyone has other ideas, please share with us via Twitter (@refollow) or email (support@refollow.com)!

Thanks again to Brian and the rest of the Twitter API support group for being proactive and reaching out to work together on a resolution.