(Republished from Carsonified’s Think Vitamin Blog)
photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
”How many of you are happy?” —Ryan Sarver
More than 100,000 registered applications have been built leveraging Twitter’s API, so when Ryan Sarver, director of Twitter’s platform, looks out at a packed house of developers at Chirp it’s a risky question to ask.
Twitter is growing up, it’s acquisition of Tweetie and openness that core features, previously filled by external apps, are now being built in-house. This transition renders many applications, some built by developers in the audience, irrelevant.
So, really, how many of you are happy? Run Ryan! Run! Read the rest of this entry »