As Twitter starts to launch new services, including premium services, a growing reality is it will start going head-to-head against developers who have done all kinds of creative things with Twitter’s API over the past couple of years to create hundreds of cool, useful and entertaining services.
While all this development happened, Twitter stood on the sidelines, scrambling to deal with hyper-growth and how it could turn traffic into revenue. With $155-million of financing and an improved infrastructure, Twitter has introduced some interesting new services such as Lists, Retweets, and the latest, Contributors, which will differentiate between multiple people using a single Twitter account.
Contributors is the type of service that will bump up against services such as CoTweet, which offers similar functionality. The same kind of competitiveness will be evident when Twitter moves into the analytics market next year with a premium service aimed at businesses.
This is a delicate dance so Twitter needs to be careful about not stepping on too many toes lest it start to openly wage war against the development ecosystem. In many respects, Wordpress faces the same challenge but, so far, has managed to avoid any conflicts.
Biz Stone and Evan Williams might want to have a chat with Wordpress domo Matt Mullenweg about how to play nice.
For more on Twitter’s move into services, check out paidContent.
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Twitter vs. the Twitter Community
As Twitter starts to launch new services, including premium services, a growing reality is it will start going head-to-head against developers who have done all kinds of creative things with Twitter’s API over the past couple of years to create hundreds of cool, useful and entertaining services.
While all this development happened, Twitter stood on the sidelines, scrambling to deal with hyper-growth and how it could turn traffic into revenue. With $155-million of financing and an improved infrastructure, Twitter has introduced some interesting new services such as Lists, Retweets, and the latest, Contributors, which will differentiate between multiple people using a single Twitter account.
Contributors is the type of service that will bump up against services such as CoTweet, which offers similar functionality. The same kind of competitiveness will be evident when Twitter moves into the analytics market next year with a premium service aimed at businesses.
This is a delicate dance so Twitter needs to be careful about not stepping on too many toes lest it start to openly wage war against the development ecosystem. In many respects, Wordpress faces the same challenge but, so far, has managed to avoid any conflicts.
Biz Stone and Evan Williams might want to have a chat with Wordpress domo Matt Mullenweg about how to play nice.
For more on Twitter’s move into services, check out paidContent.