Bot developers: interested in auto-friending?

[Alex Payne]

If you're developing a friendly, useful bot that talks to the Twitter
API, please note that we can enable auto-friending for your bot. Why
would you want to do this? Because you can't send or receive direct
messages from a user that you're not friends with. Auto-friending
opens your bot up to all sorts of neat direct message features with
minimum pain and no email parsing.

Right now we're enabling auto-friending on a case-by-case basis until
we've established best practices. If you're interested, please let
me know the screen name and purpose of your bot off-list. Thanks!

--
Alex Payne
http://twitter.com/al3x

[mrayyan]

Hi Alex,

I am developing a bot for Al Jazeera News English..

AJMe is the username.

Thank you,

Morad

[James Seng]

I would be interested to see if you provide an API to active
auto-friend for twitterchat.com

-James Seng

[Thomas Freudenberg]

Hi Alex,

That´s an interesting feature. My daily job includes administration of
a Continuous Integration Server (cc.net), and I have to maintain the
list of email recipients for build results manually. After reading
your mail I got the idea that Twitter would be a perfect channel for
build notifications. Especially if a build fails, the server could
send direct messages to the guy that committed the last changes. Auto-
friending would be a great complement for such a publisher.

Regards,
Thomas