What is it with Twitter?
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| 15:21 UK time, Friday, 19 January 2007
Recently there has been a lot of chatter and building around a new service called . Twitter by the Obvious (same group behind Odeo) has a very simple remit.
Twitter is for staying in touch and keeping up with friends no matter where you are or what you’re doing. For some friends you might want instant mobile updates—for others, you can just check the web. Invite your friends to Twitter and decide how connected you want you to be.
For developers, Twitter has a open API which gives you access to pretty much everything you need. written a load of bots for Twitter using the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s data. But there is also lots more examples of what people have done with Twitter on the .
But I asked Jack Dorsey his thoughts on the future of Twitter
Twitter is a device-agnostic community focused on answering one question: what are you doing? Our goal is to keep the service simple, open, and accessible both for our users and developers. We think this combination, a real-time device-independent platform paired with an open API, allows developers to be extremely creative with the services and products built around Twitter. The ability to organize friends into groups is our most popular feature request: that's next!
A little inside information and a reason to check out it would seem?
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