Great post, thank you Chad. I'm feeling the same disdain about committing to Twitter. I launched http://socialgrapple.com/ http://socialgrapple.com/ a few week

Great post, thank you Chad. I'm feeling the same disdain about committing to Twitter. I launched http://socialgrapple.com/ http://socialgrapple.com/ a few weeks ago--a social graph analytics product built on the Twitter API, and I'm pulling a bit of revenue already (a dozen paying customers). Now I have two choices: I have some wicked ideas of how to expand further on the Twitter API and provide even more value to customers who have expressed clear demand, or do I try and diversify onto other platforms to avoid getting bulldozed. I know I can build a better and more valuable service with less effort by continuing to build on the Twitter platform. My developer instinct says "do it" but my business instinct says "forget the opportunity and diversify somehow." Diversifying is tricky because the graph mechanics on Facebook aren't the same, it seems the value of this intelligence is lower. Only other relevant market I can think of is something to do with SEO/web search terms vs domains. I also know Twitter is building an internal analytics product, based various leaked screenshots, to complement their business model (tracking tweet impressions) but luckily it seems there's no overlap with what I'm building... yet. I don't mean to hijack this thread but it seems relevant and I would love some feedback. -- On a side note, I wrote a post in another thread that questions the details about the recent shift in Twitter's spirit towards developers: What if before @replies, #hashtags, RT's (all invented by third parties), @Twitter said "don't make more clients"? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2321837 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2321837