The Twitter Platform’s Inflection Point
http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/04/the-twitter-platform.html
and a follow up…
Evan Williams’s Message to Twitter Developers
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/evan-williamss-message-to-twitter-developers/
My view is that the killer app is microblogging – that’s what many people have missed, just as email was (is) the killer app that kicked off when federated email _arrived_ on the net in the 90′s.
I was going to post a comment on the NY Times article but I have to register first, which I won’t do. NYT need to open that up, they’ll get more comments on there articles and more traffic if they let people post without registering.
Twitter Acquires Atebits, Maker of Tweetie
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/twitter-acquires-atebits-maker-of-tweetie/