We shouldn’t “fill holes” anymore, Wilson said. The thing is Twitter
has deliberately kept a lot of holes opened, encouraging us to fill
them (and lots of applications have been doing it with innovation, by
the way).

Now we’re supposed to dig, create new holes, and fill them. Okay!
There are a lot of ideas to have around Twitter, lots of new holes to
dig.

But the question is still the same: "What will be left up to the
ecosystem and what will be created on the platform?"

I think I'm not the only one here to fear that Twitter itself begins
to compete with the applications I created (or I plan to create). Yes,
it's fun to dig holes and to fill them. But it also takes time and
money, and it's like the game was going to be much more risky than it
used to be.

Arnaud - http://twitter.com/twitoaster
Twitoaster - http://twitoaster.com


On 10 avr, 20:36, Jesse Stay <jesses...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Dewald Pretorius <dpr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Jesse,
>
> > There is a lot of merit in your point of view with regards to one's
> > core.
>
> > But, what that also means is the death of the ecosystem as we know it.
> > The ecosystem as we know it used to develop "for" Twitter, enhancing
> > the Twitter offering.
>
> Death is a strong term.  I think what Twitter is saying (and has been saying
> for the last 3 years - I just now am coming to full realization of this) is
> that the ecosystem is changing.  They want Twitter to be ubiquitous.  For
> that to happen Apps must not be built around Twitter - Twitter must be built
> around Apps.  That's why @anywhere is soon going to be launched.  It should
> be a complement to your technology, not the other way around. (I'm just as
> guilty of this as anyone, but I'm really thinking now)
>
> Jesse


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