I think you are right. People want to build on App.net. The problem is ~10,000 people have signed up and there are already ~100 apps for app.net[1]. To me th

I think you are right. People want to build on App.net. The problem is ~10,000 people have signed up and there are already ~100 apps for app.net[1]. To me that sounds like a developer circle-jerk. Developers and other technophiles typically have disposable income, love to bash incumbents and jump on the next bandwagon. App.net satisfies all of those desires. It will be interested to see if anyone else really cares. I just don't think trading one man's walled garden for another is what we need. We need an email-like solution to this problem. Something open and federated. [1]https://github.com/appdotnet/api-spec/wiki/Directory-of-third-party-devs-and-apps https://github.com/appdotnet/api-spec/wiki/Directory-of-thir...