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Twitter spawns 50,000 Apps over the last two years

Twitter has announced that 50,000 Apps have been buil;t around it's micro-blogging service over the past two years.

"Ryan Sarver, Twitter's director of platform, made the disclosure while presenting at LeWeb conference in Paris. There was only one third party Twitter application taking advantage of the service's open feeds, Sarver said.

Sarver also said that Twitter was also planning to allow developers access to their "firehose" of Twitter data and the company will teach developers how to build Apps. Twitter will also hold a conference called "chirp" in 2010.

The Road Map ahead for the company

Transparency: "we need to be more public about our policy and intentions"
Communication: "we need to be out there and let our developers know what's going on"
Utility: "we need to keep providing our robust APIs and enable third-party developers to thrive"
Profitability: "when our partners succeed, we succeed" (more details coming early 2010)

It's rare that a service would be so dependent and opened to third-party developers and Twitter now says it will open up even more. 

The third announcement was that Twitter was putting even more emphasis on OAuth, the remote login technology, and will encourage developers to use it by increasing the API calls limit 10 times.


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