Comments on: Twitter Acquires Tweetie

By: Karlitoo Bing

Karlitoo Bing — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 12:49:00 +0000

For months and months, the company has kept its web site relatively spare and instead encouraged third parties to build out novel features and presences for it on other devices. See more

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:33:33 +0000

I don’t know if it will keep people from trying different clients. The users apt to doing that kind of thing are, for the most part, geeks who will continue to do so. The “official” app idea is mainly targeted at the kind of people who don’t care beyond searching for what they expect to be the official application.

I’m afraid it might hurt Twitter client development on the iPhone because, surely, there are at least a few developers with the same mindset as Tr.im: “we can’t possibly compete with x, because Twitter made them the official one!” If someone will complain about Twitter making Bit.ly their default shortener, there will be plenty who don’t like Twitter having an official iPhone application.

By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:20:44 +0000

I’m not entirely sure this was necessary to be honest. One of the nicest things about Twitter is that there is so much competition between 3rd party tools. Would be a shame to see that people stop trying out new tools just because Twitter have an official app now

That said, pretty nice of them to make it free! Can’t really complain there