Think twitter can blow money an faster?

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Twitter Buys Tweetie, Adds Fuel to Developer Fires

Twitter bought out Atebits the maker of the iPhone app Tweetie, the two main changes are it'll be free, and it'll be renamed to Twitter for iPhone (they also make Tweetie for OSX which I got thru the last MacHeist nanobundle).


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Developers and other observers immediately started analyzing the purchase as soon as the news broke. Hunch Co-founder Chris Dixon connected Fred Wilson’s comments — which the VC blogger denied were about any specific future action by the company — with the Tweetie acquisition, saying: “Wow, weird coincidence! a Twitter board member blogged about killing twitter apps the same week Twitter released/bought 2 clients!” Engadget editor Nilay Patel said that Twitter buying Tweetie was “roughly equivalent to Microsoft building it’s own WP7 phone – bye bye, ecosystem.”

Former Engadget editor and gdgt co-founder Ryan Block said: “As of today, if your app depends on Twitter for anything other than identity or content syndication, you are officially on notice.” Some developers even formed their own unofficial “union” with a Twitter hashtag — the #unionoftwitterapps, and there is plenty of discussion pro and con about the deal on a Google (GOOG) group for Twitter developers. Daring Fireball blogger John Gruber wrote that “there’s going to be some heavy drinking tonight from developers of other iPhone OS Twitter API clients.”
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Kind of my feeling too, seems that if Twitter buys out the most popular 3rd party application then there's a likelihood that they'll close off the API to only its applications.

But at the same time, they paid money to acquire the company... then made the app free... and still to date don't use any kind of advertising front.
 


wow... seriously guys? here is an alternative option. Twitter is about to launch an ad platform in the very near future. Perhaps they want to make sure those ads can also be viewable via one of the most popular phone platforms and rather than waste a bunch of time coding a client from scratch they thought it would be simpler to by a fully functioning one that already had a large userbase. hurrrr
 
apexSEORM said:
wow... seriously guys? here is an alternative option. Twitter is about to launch an ad platform in the very near future. Perhaps they want to make sure those ads can also be viewable via one of the most popular phone platforms and rather than waste a bunch of time coding a client from scratch they thought it would be simpler to by a fully functioning one that already had a large userbase. hurrrr
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1. We have all known twitter was going to release an ad platform, the question was when and how?

2. The op is just trying to bring us news we may have not already read or heard of yet, as to this specific piece of news this is the first time I have heard it.

3. Nominating you for May ban.
 
FerrisHilton said:
1. We have all known twitter was going to release an ad platform, the question was when and how?

2. The op is just trying to bring us news we may have not already read or heard of yet, as to this specific piece of news this is the first time I have heard it.

3. Nominating you for May ban.
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1. I wasn't disputing your or the OP knowledge of said coming ad platform. I was saying BASED ON KNOWING THAT IT WILL HAPPEN then X might be true.

2. My comment... which says "seriously guys" NOT "seriously OP" or "seriously kblessingrr" was in response to the article... not the OP (Otherwise I would have quoted him)

3. Ok? I've been here longer than you and have a higher rating than you... go for it.
 
kblessinggr said:
Quick question, if twitter is gona launch an ad platform and hopefully intergrate it into the twitter phone and desktop application... how will the recent announcement of iAd affect them?
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well if apple's smart they'll do the same thing that adware companies do to on-page ads. Write right the fuck over them.

Peace out stupid bird, shouts of "WEB 3.0 OMG!" and idiot VC's cash.
 
to clarify.. the idea of a regular person posting on twitter is a fad.. twitter might remain as a "microblog" type broadcast mechanism for content creators/persons of interest/celebs/etc who don't have a use for a full-fledged blog
 
twitter is kinda cool, I like how it's just little updates, I follow a few of my AMs and ZenSix and I like the little updates that don't require a full blog post/email to say. I just load it into my RSS reader and check it when the new updates come in.
 
They might as well throw money around like its still fucking cool stop hating. It was a smart move on their part its known as "if u cant beat em join em" in the online gaming community sometimes we call it "stacking".


I am just as excited by the new Twitter ad platform as I am about iAd because like every traffic source there is shit that will convert when you advertise stuff on it.

And let me throw the rest of my .02 in as someone who actually also uses a Blackberry Storm - im fucking glad that its the official twitter app for blackberry is better to use. Fuck having to run around and try a bunch of 3rd party shit just to check and update twitter real quick - now the easiest way is also the best - which Twitter needs.

Really some of you are taking this too far from complaining as the user experience doesn't get HURT by this move on Twitters part.

Anyways as far as them BLOWING money - again - its gonna take some BALLS to get Twitter to remain in the spotlight for some time now - if it wants to play in the same court as Facebook or Myspace its gotta keep doing SOMETHING. Look at myspace those pussies are going through CEOS faster than Hydra is and theyre dying - Twitter best start making some power plays if they dont wanna end up getting bought up by Microsoft or something.

kblessinggr said:
Quick question, if twitter is gona launch an ad platform and hopefully intergrate it into the twitter phone and desktop application... how will the recent announcement of iAd affect them?
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They'll (Twitter) get iAd revshare like the owners of every other app on iPhone. I really do doubt we'd see the ability to do self-serve mobile advertising through twitter - definitely iPhone advertising.
 
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