Twitter, in and of itself, is pretty stupid. Or to be a bit more analytical and precise, as a web version of a cell phone Short Message Service (aka SMS), it's incredibly limited functionality provides little room for practical value. (It actually started as a way to reflect a message from one cell phone out to a group of friends on their cell phones, via a web based facility.) By itself, Twitter is a very limited tool that would be permanently consigned to a narrow audience as a small utility function. You can easily think of 5-10 such services that you've tried and (probably) discarded, a few of which you keep using for their narrow purpose. So what differentiates Twitter from hundreds of other narrow utilities that came (and mostly went)? In a word, a Service Oriented Interface. Twitter started from day 1 exposing a simple straightforward Web Service interface. Even further, they never offered a feature without simultaneously exposing it. In other words, there is a Twi...
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