On Jul 16, 4:34 pm, Peter Denton <[email protected]> wrote:
> There is a lot of ambiguity up in the air, about api devs (third party) and
> the future of the api and twitter. Apps are a huge growth vehicle and a very
> significant piece of the future, getting the Twitter medium a global
> behavior.
You could call it the Association of Communications App Developers, or
something like that. Sign me up.
I just joined the group here but Peter has a good point. Even if you
didn't read the leaked documents, Twitter could be sold tomorrow. Get
real, this happens all the time: big company buys cool website and all
promises are out the window.
Worst case scenario: Yahoo buys Twitter and now you need a Yahoo
account to use it ;-) I doubt Yahoo could afford Twitter, but you
know what I mean.
Regardless, I heard Laconica (open source microblogging) is working on
a name registration system, so these 140-character messages can find
new paths The clients could then update open networks with one extra
line of code, then bypass the Twitter API entirely, if they had to.
I don't care what Tweetdeck does (noobs catch on eventually) and with
so much prior art there's nothing to stop it. Put down your Wii
remote kids, that's the endgame here. Get some perspective.
