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Tag Archives: twitter
Twitter App Numbers Growing Strong Going Into 2010
At the LeWeb conference in Paris Twitter is busy making sure that all the developments in the real-time search and social media world aren’t just coming from the Googleplex. Maybe it’s the end of the year rush or it’s the need to create excitement going into 2010 since 2009 was a rough year for many. Whatever the reason the news is fast and furious inthe space in general. Twitter’s busy letting the world in on the sheer volume of apps that have been developed for the service and how they are going to help foster more growth in the near future. TechCrunch is convering the event and tells us Twitter’s Director of Platform Ryan Sarver just took the stage at LeWeb a couple of minutes ago, and shared some announcements with the audience about the future of the platform and the effect this will have on the ecosystem. He also shared a milestone for the company: Sarver said 50,000 registered applications to date have been built using Twitter APIs. The roadmap ahead: Transparency : “we need to be more public about our policy and intentions” Communication : “we need to be out there and let our developers know what’s going on” Utility : “we need to keep providing our robust APIs and enable third-party developers to thrive” Profitability : “when our partners succeed, we succeed” (more details coming early 2010) Of course, since this is Twitter most people will laser in on the P word (profitability). Some of the significant ‘details’ around these areas is that everyone will have full access to the data stream in 2010 (what that actually means is TBD). Look for a new website for developers with dashboards and the like for the development community. Also, as a sign that the development of apps is truly a big deal there will be a Twitter developer conference in 2010 called Chirp in San Francisco next year The conference, which will be geared towards developers, is likely to be similar in some ways to Facebook’s F8 conference that is held each year in San Francisco. Not too many details were given but there is a landing page up already for the event (which is scheduled to take place sometime in 2010). So Twitter continues to flourish and develop to try to handle the continued growth despite some concern about visitor fall off recently. I suspect that some of the developers are the very reason for this ‘concern’ as many people access Twitter through third party apps to begin with and those growing numbers are not tracked by these number crunching entities. Looks like 2010 is going to be another big year for Twitter. Comments Continue reading
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Tagged app, conference, dashboards, developer conference, developers, developments, director, leweb, profitability, roadmap, rush, the-development, third party, twitter
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Is Twitter Ready For Mainstream Real-Time Search?
If you are a Twitter user, you have probably experienced errors trying to use the service a time or two. In fact, Twitter being "over capacity" is so common on Twitter that the "Fail Whale", which is displayed in such instances has something of a cult following. People even wear T-shirts sporting the image. Despite said following, you have to wonder how long this is going to go on. Hasn't Twitter had ample time to correct the issue of frequent "fails" by now? Twitter has grown rapidly over the last couple years in terms of users, and has etched its place into pop culture. Still, errors continue to plague the service and its users. To be fair, the problem doesn't usually last long. Often, you can try to access it a minute after an error and carry on just fine...until the next time. The problem is that there's always a next time, and that next time doesn't seem to usually be too far off. Yet users don't seem to really mind this frequent issue. Surely it has annoyed many to no end, but the issue is not something that often makes mainstream headlines - not like when something like Gmail goes down, which is a much more rare occurrence. Perhaps it is the transparency of the issue that Twitter employs. It updates the Twitter Status Blog daily most of the time to alert users of known issues, but nothing they ever do seems to truly correct the problem of frequent disruption. 2010 promises to be a huge year for Twitter. They're opening up the firehose to developers , which means Twitter applications will be able to do a lot more things, and a lot more apps will likely be built as a result. Combine that with the fact that Google is now showing real-time results from Twitter in its own search results for many queries. It's hard to imagine that Twitter won't grow significantly more in usage next year as it is thrust even more in people's faces. Is Twitter really prepared to handle the kind of growth that could be in store for it? Is this frequent disruption going to continue or will the problem get better? Some companies may be worried about their own reputation with Google showing real-time Twitter results on SERPs. If Twitter continues to be frequently "over capacity", how will that bode for Twitter's own reputation with the public (many of who are already skeptical of the service's potential)? Continue reading
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Tagged frequent, issue, rare occurrence, search, social-media, time doesn, twitter, twitter-status
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Twitter to Spray Developers With the Coveted Firehose
Twitter announced that it will be opening up its data stream (otherwise known as the Firehose) in early 2010. This means the number of Twitter apps will skyrocket, and the potential for functionality in existing Twitter apps will be greatly increased. That means good things for developers, and most likely great things for Twitter. Twitter reportedly made this and several other announcements at the Le Web event in France. Other announcements involved a new developer site that will be launching soon, an increased rate limit for services that use OAuth, an API for browser-less apps to be launched in 2010, and an official Twitter-hosted developer conference called Chirp. The firehose would give developers access to the same spectrum of Twitter data that Google and Bing have access to, as Pete Cashmore points out . Twitter says there are already over 50,000 registered Twitter Apps so far. Imagine how many more will come out with such new possibilities made available. You can probably expect a lot of new "coolness" from our own Twitter-app Twellow , once we get access to the firehose, Twellow's lead developer Matthew Daines tells me. The firehose will mean a lot more accurate and real-time functionality for a lot of Twitter-related applications. With this, Google launching real-time results from Twitter and other sources, and announcements from other important companies , we're really going to be seeing the "real-time web" we've talked about so much start to truly take shape. On a related note, Twitter also stressed that it wants to become more transparent and communicate better with developers. In addition, the company intends to announce a business model that will involve "sharing money and success" with partners. If you thought 2009 was the year of Twitter, it looks like things are really going to get interesting in 2010. Related Articles: > New APIs Should Help MySpace Stay Relevant > Dell Attributes $6.5 Million In Sales To Twitter > Continue reading
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Tagged apps, business model, coolness, daines, data stream, get-interesting, important companies, potential, review and story, sales, time web, twellow, twitter, twitter-apps
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Twitter Improves Mobile Site
Twitter intends to offer all of its users an improved mobile experience in the near future, and in the meantime, a preview of its next-generation mobile site has become available. Continue reading
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Tagged apis, Business, china, google-friend, ish, microsoft, mobile, s engineering, showcases, third party, twitter, twitter-mobile, user experience
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