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Seems like a good way to get your IP blacklisted

I worked with a company in the past that abused the twitter api to an unimaginable level from a single IP address.

That was a few years ago but at the time I’m pretty sure their blacklisting was between inexistent and pathetic.

Using these keys?

No. Different strategy.

It’s sad that you think this somehow reflects badly on Twitter. I appreciate a company that will opt to be conservative rather than ban-hammer innocent people on accident just to stop a single idiot.

I don’t think it reflects badly on Twitter, it was simply a remark on the state of their blacklisting at the time. I’m sure they could’ve done a lot better if they chose to. Sorry I didn’t expressed myself better.

> It’s sad that you think this somehow reflects badly on Twitter. I appreciate a company that will opt to be conservative rather than ban-hammer innocent people on accident just to stop a single idiot.

Off-topic but reminds me of ~2004 where we had a particularly pervasive cheater in our dedicated game server and the end decision of the admin was to just ban the entire IP range of said cheaters' ISP. Not particularly conservative - very effective.

Seems like a good way to get an angry e-mail from your ISP, or Twitter's lawyer.

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