The Tweetie story of the past week has been making a lot of waves for both users and developers alike — but what happens to the secret Twitter app you’ve been working on for the last 2.5 months in the wake of Twitter turning Loren Brichter’s app into the one, true Official Twitter app? That’s a good question — and one that the Tapbots team is eagerly awaiting an answer to, come Chirp (the Twitter dev conference). To Tapbots, it all boils down to four major factors:
- Will the official Twitter client gain access to private APIs that others can ‘t access?
- Will it get a higher query limit?
- Will it be the only client to have true push notification?
- Will they eventually kill all 3rd party iPhone/iPad clients to prevent confusion between their app and all the rest?’
I have a feeling that Twitter would like to remain as open as possible and not suddenly shun all of the other developers that have embraced and allowed their platform to grow over the past few years — so we should still have a Tweetbot iPhone client in our future.
You can check out the rest of the Tapbots entry here.
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