Official UberMedia Statement about UberTwitter Suspension – Changing name to UberSocial

by Mac Jadalhack

19 February 2011 No Comment

After UberTwitter got suspended by and from Twitter yesterday, the company started working rapidly to work on changes in their application to get back into the game. We had mentioned two reasons why UberTwitter was banned, one was because of direct messages being longer than 140 characters, and the other is the modifications of tweets to monetize. What we found out today is that Twitter is demanding a name change as well, so now UberTwitter will be known as UberSocial. Hit the jump for the full official statement from UberMedia.

PASADENA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Bill Gross, CEO of UberMedia, Inc., today made the following statement regarding Twitter’s suspension of service to UberTwitter, Twidroyd and UberCurrent:

Early Friday morning, Twitter shut off access to its service by several of our Twitter client applications: UberTwitter, Twidroyd, and UberCurrent. Twitter then notified us that they believed we were in violation of several provisions of their terms of service.

We were immediately in touch with Twitter, and the changes they asked us to make were very small. As a result, we have completed the changes, and new apps are currently being posted to their respective stores. Twitter has assured us that as soon as those changes were complete, they would reactivate our applications.

Twitter also asked us to modify the name of UberTwitter. We began a process of changing the name three weeks ago by polling our users, and we’ve decided based on their input to change the product name to UberSocial, which we completed today.

To our millions of loyal users, we appreciate your patience during this temporary period. We look forward to continuing our innovations on the Twitter platform.

Bill Gross, CEO
UberMedia, Inc.

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