It seems like Bill Gross Ubermedia has got its iPhone apps API key reinstated after a dramatic turn of being shut down due to privacy and trademark violations.
Now in this case Blackberry client UberTwitter’s name will be Uber Social while Android App twidroyd will remain the same.
No word yet on whether the iPhone apps are still working as they are now under Ubermedia developers to provide updates, or users have to download the new versions of iPhone apps again to see there tweets. The iPhone apps Ubercurrent and Ubersocial which was Ubertwitter formerly; have not yet been sent to twitter for review.
When asked from twitter about this issue of iPhone apps, they gave the following statement:
“Today Twitter reinstated access to the applications twidroyd and UberSocial for Blackberry (formerly UberTwitter), which were suspended two days ago for policy violations. Our initial review indicates that steps have been taken to remedy the violations for these applications. We will review these applications on an ongoing basis for compliance.
We will review UberSocial for iPhone and UberCurrent, two other applications suspended on Friday, when they are provided to us.
Developers using the Twitter API have a responsibility not to violate the rules designed to protect our users and the long-term health and vitality of the Twitter platform. If you use the API that we support at great cost with our infrastructure and engineers, you sign up to abide by the rules for its use. While we don’t pre-review every application the way, say, Apple does in its App Store, that is no excuse to violate the rules or see what you can get away with.
Hundreds of thousands of developers who use our API daily do so within the framework we set up, without the need for close oversight, threats or actions that impact users.
We closely evaluate our relationships with developers that don’t work within this framework.”
Bill Gross told Techcrunch just sometime ago via DM that twidroyd and Ubersocial both are now available. If users want to check them out the they can do so by just hitting on the following links-
Twidroyd-http://bit.ly/Twidroyd5DL
Ubersocial- http://bit.ly/UberDL