Building a better Fortress Twitter
New post up over at louisgray.com: Walls, Blogs, and Power: Building Fortress Twitter. Here’s a clip:
The race to build the perfect Twitter add-on service is in full bore. There are so many new services and applications being delivered these days that new sites are cropping up exist solely to aggregate and organize all the cool stuff that’s being built on top of Twitter’s open API. For example, Twitterati notes that the goal of Twitdom is “to provide a consolidated view of all the applications developed for the Twitter ecosystem.”
Some have argued that Twitter’s relative simplicity may be a factor holding it back from going “mainstream.” While I disagree – I believe that Twitter’s strong growth will continue – I have been keeping a close eye on those applications that add value to the basic Twitter service to create what I call “Twitter Pluses.” In a sense, the Twitter Pluses could be thought of as iterations of the base platform that Twitter itself could hypothetically adopt for itself.
