The Fine Print on Twitter's Latest Developer Dustup With IFTTT - Mike Isaac - Social - AllThingsD

tbd if IFTTT (If This Then That) has an else clause for this scenario

"The problem is, that’s not a new rule for Twitter. In fact, according to the archive of Twitter’s developer rules of the road, this has been the case since at least April of 2011, if not longer (that’s as far back as the archive displays “recent changes”). So, essentially, IFTTT is pointing the finger at supposed changes in the Twitter ecosystem that really occurred more than a year ago.
Granted, Twitter did little to enforce many of the guidelines for quite some time. Only in the past few months has Twitter shown more willingness to bring the hammer down on those it sees breaking the rules."

The Fine Print on Twitter's Latest Developer Dustup With IFTTT - Mike Isaac - Social - AllThingsD