Twitter Surpasses 70,000 Apps

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March 4, 2010
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Who knew making an API open could yield so many apps? By making its services available on more than just its Web site, Twitter has spawned a huge ecosystem of third-party apps that in one way or another let you tweet.

How big is this ecosystem? Try 70,000 apps for things like managing lists and searching for videos. Pretty remarkable considering you only need one or two. But that market is huge and growing and Twitter has announced a developer conference for next month. Datamation has more.

There are millions of Twitter users, but the number of application developers supporting the microblogging platform isn't too shabby, either....

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Source: Internetnews.com

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