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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Twitter, a Pandora’s Box or an empty box?
Here are a few things I’ve noticed while working with Twitizer, and that’s got me thinking:
Twitter is an amazingly simple service, yet almost everything the service stores and handles can in practice be accessed via the Twitter API. This makes it extremely powerful for developers that want to access that data, yet at the same time a potential hacker target, that could easily be exploited.
The Twitter brand can and will be quickly diluted, as Twitter doesn’t seem to care about or act on other companies using original artwork etc. I’ve seen quite popular Twitter-related services use Twitter’s original bird icons. I’ve been careful about that, but still the Twitizer logo is not that different from the Twitter logo, and TwitPic, TwitVid etc also use very similar logos.
Twitter refuses to evolve its service. Maybe this is a stroke of genius, but at the same time the company is letting all the good stuff be exploited by other companies.
Frankly I personally don’t find much use for Twitter alone, especially as Facebook exists and does much much more, yet I realize that it’s become a hub for information transfers in general, but again, all the creative stuff happens outside of Twitter. That’s peculiar.
