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How Twitter plans to make you forget about desktop clients

Posted Feb 28th, 2010 at 8:20 AM and seen
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According to this recent cryptic tweet by Twitter engineer, Alex Payne, new upcoming features may be so good that users may forget about their desktop clients altogether. Understandably, the looming news has many developers worried about their future. Last year alone, Twitter added several defining features like Retweets and Lists—so it’s hard to imagine what they could still have up their sleeves. 

But, whatever the changes might be, one can only hope that Twitter remembers that simplicity has always been the core of their success.

Full story at TechCrunch.

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 Catherine Faas

Comments (9)

Feb 28, 2010
Suhasini said...
Lets see what exactly twitter is gonna do now.
Feb 28, 2010
Tiger Munky said...
I don't think it's gonna work, unless they make the functionality exclusive to their web app and not accessible in their API.
Feb 28, 2010
hidden 4real said...
Twitter still has so many flaws its not even funny anymore. You can't even find your friends most of the times unless you know their email or you let twitter go through all your accounts. Huhhh!!
Feb 28, 2010
Brittany Blackmon said...
OOO I hope Twitter nails it... for now, I'm using tweetdeck
Feb 28, 2010
wife mom maniac said...
Twitter can't keep it simple because they still aren't making any money, they need to find revenue streams
Mar 01, 2010
Tim said...
This looks like a betrayal of the applications developers who have made twitter's success
Mar 01, 2010
amaaanda said...
Another step in gaining control of their own content (just like the new RT function). Gotta get it all together so they can sell corps those analytics accounts! :) Props to Twitter.
Mar 01, 2010
David Leigh said...
We'll see whether they can really produce something that won't want to make me use a desktop client - managing multiple accounts springs to mind. As does having Twitter in something that isn't Firefox - I have so many tabs open I'd never be able to find it anyway.
Mar 02, 2010
Chris Bishop S. said...
When is Google going to buy this and really show them how to wreck it?

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