No news, actually, on Techcrunch today. All you see today on Twitter.com besides their initial concept was taken from 3rd party apps. Tweetdeck’s “groups” became “lists” on Twitter, Tweetvisor’s innovative “saved searches” and “integrated search box” became a sidebar search on Twitter.com, Hootsuite and Tweetvisor’s tabbed browsing is now implemented on Twitter’s sidebar, CoTweet’s amazing feature that enables companies’ representatives to tweet on the same Twitter account will eventually be rolled out to the already-announced Twitter business package as a “Contributors” feature etc.
Other features and behaviors, such as Mentions that replaced direct Replies, or the Retweet feature (the best part of it), are all smart ideas of 3rd party enthusiasts that have actually pushed all these changes via their creations built around Twitter API (except Seesmic maybe, which seems to be the other way around).
Twitter will never confirm this publicly, but everybody is aware on their ongoing intention of attracting more website visitors by keeping up with apps’ innovations. And now they are probably being pushed by investors and board to finally monetize, and they can only do this by filtering the apps and drowning the main players.
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