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So twitter used developers to boost adoption (covering a UX deficiency) and market penetration, then when they got universally known (and powerful enough to bui

So twitter used developers to boost adoption (covering a UX deficiency) and market penetration, then when they got universally known (and powerful enough to build their own stuff now) they kicked devs in the ass? Classy move, twitter.

shazow 16y ago
More like when third-party apps get good enough, Twitter acquires one and boots the rest.
- guilleiguaran 16y ago
  Ironic, the only official client developed by Twitter is the web, all the other clients were bought or contracted out.
  - slig 16y ago
    Not surprisingly, the web version sucks.
    - jpeterson 16y ago
      How so? I've found it to be a very nice experience. Additionally, it troubles me greatly that this uninformative and borderline trollish comment has so many upvotes.
      - ThomPete 16y ago
        Maybe it's just me but I find the browser experience to be completely non real-time centric. So perhaps you have different standards than me, but I fail to see how it's better than something like TweetDeck.
    - kmfrk 16y ago
      For mobile. It's great on a desktop - to me at least.
    - badwetter 16y ago
      IMHO The original web interface sucked -- The new one is quite good (for me).
  - irondavycole 16y ago
    Was the iPad client not developed in-house?