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It's not like other company's haven't been trying to beat twitter at it's own game already though. Pownce, jaiku, laconica, etc. Twitter's api is really a kille
by dkasper 18y ago
It's not like other company's haven't been trying to beat twitter at it's own game already though. Pownce, jaiku, laconica, etc. Twitter's api is really a killer feature that helps things stay fresh with new apps coming out all the time using their platform.
That being said, I agree with the main point of the article, innovate or die.
- catch404 18y agoI wonder what would happen if the competing apps made an abstraction layer for their APIs to map to Twitters, allowing App developers to develop for both.
- tvon 18y agoThe usual thing to do in this situation is or any competition to mirror the API twitter provides, and then to provide features on top of that. Then the developers just have to change a few API configs to use the new service (as opposed to using a new library, or something like that)