Twitter growing up through acquisitions and advertising
You’re a small start-up. You’ve invested heaps of time and money in your twitter client which will be supported by advertising and suddenly Twitter throw a spanner at your well greased wheel. What do you do? Last week Twitter announced that they had acquired atebits, the folks behind the Twitter iPhone app tweetie. As soon as they did there were a heap of tweets lamenting that Twitter had done so and saying “I feel sorry for all devs”. There are people forming unions and grabbing the pitchforks to storm the barricades. They are talking about creating a new open platform …