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By: War Is Hell: Welcome to the Twitter Wars of 2011: Tech News and Analysis «

War Is Hell: Welcome to the Twitter Wars of 2011: Tech News and Analysis « — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 02:46:59 +0000

[...] Twitter started buying up applications and clamping down on third-party apps last year, it was obvious that the company was no longer the [...]

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By: Twitter “Screwed Up” With Developers, Founder Says: Tech News «

Twitter “Screwed Up” With Developers, Founder Says: Tech News « — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:24:59 +0000

[...] the company grew, it realized that it needed to fill some of the holes in its feature set, and that led to the purchase of Tweetie and triggered some bad feeling in the developer community. “We’ve learned a lot about having an ecosystem and working [...]

By: Twitter: From Gawky Teen to Responsible Adult: Tech News «

Twitter: From Gawky Teen to Responsible Adult: Tech News « — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:44:23 +0000

[...] earlier this year, after Twitter acquired the Tweetie app for the iPhone and investor Fred Wilson talked about the need to “fill the holes” in the company’s feature set. Many developers took that as an attack on them, and some clearly felt betrayed, since many of [...]

By: Twitter Has 145M Users, Mobile Use Up 62 Percent «

Twitter Has 145M Users, Mobile Use Up 62 Percent « — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:13:26 +0000

[...] purchase of Tweetie was controversial at the time, because the company was seen by some as targeting third-party developers and applications — [...]

By: Twitter Highlights Consumption With First Native App «

Twitter Highlights Consumption With First Native App « — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:59:36 +0000

[...] created the app with Loren Brichter, who joined Twitter when it controversially purchased his iPhone Twitter app, Tweetie (which is now Twitter for iPhone, and is actually the same app as [...]

By: TweetPhoto Renames Itself As It Grows Beyond Twitter

TweetPhoto Renames Itself As It Grows Beyond Twitter — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 13:57:58 +0000

[...] Twitter and Facebook. While the relaunch makes Plixi less reliant on Twitter — which has been duplicating many features developed by third-party services — it puts the company squarely in the sights of Facebook, [...]

By: What’s on Deck for Twitter’s Platform: App Promotion and Another Dev Conference

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 15:47:17 +0000

[...] criticism and anger, especially over Twitter’s moves to compete with its ecosystem by buying the iPhone client Tweetie, but Sarver said he was happy with the “pivotal” event for the opportunity to establish [...]

By: Twitter is No Longer a Platform | CloudAve

Twitter is No Longer a Platform | CloudAve — Tue, 25 May 2010 18:42:02 +0000

[...] recent decision to lock out third-party ad networks, combined with its clear move in to the edge application space fundamentally alter what Twitter is. It is no longer a platform for application developers to productize around [...]

By: Twitter Bans Competition With Its Promoted Tweets

Twitter Bans Competition With Its Promoted Tweets — Mon, 24 May 2010 16:08:01 +0000

[...] Fresh off the heels of developer anger and confusion over Twitter’s unexpected efforts to launch and acquire mobile clients last months, the news was carefully laid out in a long blog post by Twitter COO Dick [...]