I guess Fred Wilson (Investor in Twitter) sort of Indicated this was going to happen... http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/04/the-twitter-platform.html http://www.av

I guess Fred Wilson (Investor in Twitter) sort of Indicated this was going to happen... http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/04/the-twitter-platform.html http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/04/the-twitter-platform.html "Much of the early work on the Twitter Platform has been filling holes in the Twitter product. It is the kind of work General Computer was doing in Cambridge in the early 80s. Some of the most popular third party services on Twitter are like that. Mobile clients come to mind. Photo sharing services come to mind. URL shorteners come to mind. Search comes to mind. Twitter really should have had all of that when it launched or it should have built those services right into the Twitter experience. When you talk to a new user, they want to know how to post a photo to Twitter, they want to know "what is this bit.ly thing?", they want to know how to get Twitter on their iPhone. Names like Summize, Twitpic, Tweetie make no sense to them. Of course, without Summize, Twitpic, and Tweetie we would not have the Twitter we have today. They and many other third party products and services filled out the holes in the Twitter product and made it work better."