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One note on the Fred Wilson quote: > Twitter really should have had all of that when it launched or it should have built those services right into the Twitter
by RyanMcGreal 17y ago
One note on the Fred Wilson quote:
> Twitter really should have had all of that when it launched or it should have built those services right into the Twitter experience.
Part of why the Twitter platform is so rich with services is that the company didn't insist on filling in all the holes itself. The more open model they followed is precisely what allowed such creativity in the services that run on top of the platform.
- telemachos 17y agoAnd haven't many people argued that Twitter did this exactly right? The idea being that they did one small and simple thing, provided a generous and open API and then let other people help bring interest to them?
- frederickcook 17y agoTo comment on that, Twitter has been promising a "version 2" of their API since around the time they went from 12 employees to 150 and took that $150M, and we haven't seen anything. A glaring example of how little Twitter has done to support developers since their original API is this support ticket that has been open for about 15 months: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=214 http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/detail?id=214 Obviously, those 150 people have been working hard on something for the last year, and providing the best tools for developers (let alone filling huge holes in their API) doesn't seem to be the top priority. I could be totally wrong on this and API V2 will be out in a few weeks and blow all of our socks off.