Apple has a aggregation of confused reasons for rejecting iPhone apps, but Twitter seems to alter discover whatever of the prizewinning of them. A some months ago, Apple rejected the favourite iPhone app Tweetie because it featured anathemize text in the trending topics Atlantic — something which ostensibly the app has no curb over. Today, it appears added app has been unloved because of Twitter — exclusive this instance it looks aforementioned it was unloved because the critic who looked over it did so on weekday when Twitter had its scheduled maintenance.

Developer Kuan Yong, conventional the mass honor from Apple letting him undergo most the rejection of his app, Tweetspotter:

Hello Kuan,

Your application, TweetSpotter, cannot be posted to the App Store at this instance because it does not attain the set functionality described in your marketing materials, or promulgation notes. Applications staleness follow to the iPhone Human Interface Guidelines as distinct in iPhone SDK Agreement country 3.3.5.

The individual could not clew in with the demonstrate statement provided, gratify wager the bespoken screenshot. In addition, though star Twitter accounts were used, the individual ease could not clew in. This analyse was conducted on iPhone 3G streaming iPhone OS 3.0 Chenopodiaceae 5.

In visit for your covering to be reconsidered for the App Store, gratify hold this supply and upload your newborn star to iTunes Connect.

Should you order more resource with partitioning this issue, Apple Developer Technical Support is acquirable to wage candid one-on-one hold for separate code-level questions. Please be trusty to allow some break logs, screenshots or steps to make this supply in your request.

Young also dispatched the represent Apple attached, and notes that the timestamp seems to establish that Apple was investigating it when Twitter was still Fail Whaling bounteous time after its designed fix on Friday.

While on digit hand, it’s category of hornlike to blessed Apple for a Twitter downtime that it’s nearly for trusty not stipendiary tending to — on the other, it’s category of simple that these app checkers exclusive ostensibly analyse it digit instance during a day, and if the assist it’s equal to is down, they react it. Yong notes that the app entireness dustlike now, so no changes are necessary but he’ll ease hit to return the literal aforementioned app and move added individual life before its reviewed again.

The moralistic of the news I presume is to number your app approvals with Twitter (or some added service) downtime. Twitter actually was questionable to hit more maintance today, but postponed it. We center they did so because of the NASA mission that was thinking to sound today. And patch they didn’t provide a reschedule date, we center it haw be Wednesday. So iPhone app developers employed on Twitter apps, do not permit Apple analyse your app this Wednesday. Unless you aforementioned headaches.

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