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Third-party Twitter developers are toast [VIDEO]

Posted By Paul Ryan On 16 April, 2010 @ 3:50 pm In Anthill TV,Anty-Climax,Tech & Innovation | No Comments

If you somehow missed the news, Twitter recently triggered an earthquake ^[1] for the third-party developers who have built businesses on the back of the social network’s phenomenal success. In short, Twitter signalled that most of these third-party services would soon get some new competition. From Twitter.

The move was foreshadowed in a searing blog post ^[2] by Union Square Ventures VC and Twitter investor Fred Wilson, who chastised these third-party developers for “filling holes in the Twitter product” rather than building killer apps.

In the video below, Loren Feldman from 138media ^[3] delivers the unvarnished version as he sees it (as always).

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[1] triggered an earthquake: http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/10/developers-in-denial-the-seesmic-case-study/

[2] searing blog post: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/04/the-twitter-platform.html

[3] 138media: http://www.1938media.com/

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