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Why Twitter Should Stay Out of the App Business

Posted by Soulskill on from the hard-to-write-an-app-in-140-characters dept.

waderoush writes "Twitter has come out with some impressive new tools this month — the Twitter app for iPhone/iPad on September 1, and the overhauled Twitter website, or #NewTwitter, this week. But Twitter is late to its own party, Xconomy argues today. #NewTwitter still lacks basics like photo uploading and URL shortening, and apps built by third-party developers like TweetDeck and Flipboard continue to provide more compelling ways to explore the information in a Twitter stream. While Twitter may finally be 'getting focused' on ways to achieve mass market growth, as former Twitter platform manager Alex Payne wrote this week, the company will have a hard time competing with its own developer community — and might do better instead to acknowledge, and focus on, the service's growing role as a general Internet utility."

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  1. Re:Hurt their own developers by dgatwood · · Score: 0, Troll

    People will get used to a crappy interface -- just look at MySpace -- but will not put up with unstable service for long.

    How do explain Windows, then?

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  2. Re:Twitter? by PaulMeigh · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm with you, but isn't a post that says 'I don't get it' the opposite of +1 insightful?