September 23rd, 2010

Third-party Twitter apps take a beating and keep on tweeting

Internet News, iPhone, by Albel.
This is certainly not a good week to a Twitter Application Developer (if you work for Twitter, that is). Tweet Boss Evan Williams recently unveiled on the Twitter Blog that the third-party applications a tiny percentage of the total traffic Twitter, Twitter’s website and the official requests of drawing to represent the most weight. Ev paused to say: “You think we owe you, but we did not, but seemed to be the impact.

In case you were wondering which third-party apps are the most successful, TwitPic and TweetDeck top the list, with 4% and 3% of Twitter’s traffic, respectively. To put that into perspective, the official Twitter iPhone app gets 8%, and so does SMS. Twitter.com is by far the most popular way to access Twitter, at 78%.

Meanwhile, the money went for Twitter devs off, too. A report cited by ReadWriteWeb said that while the development to Twitter, the investment in the developer Twitter is down. In fact, after 50% last year. The report deals only with start-ups whose products are made exclusively on the Twitter platform, hybrid applications might be in order. We do not know for sure, but we know that developers muscle Twitter yet. Twitter is the evolution of ecosystems, who grew up with enthusiasm the Devs working outside, is now behind.
Twitter’s official iPhone app is about to get push notifications, according to several sources on the Web. It’s like Twitter’s old SMS alert option, reborn in a cooler iPhone-shaped body. Even better, push notifications won’t count toward your monthly SMS total or incur texting charges.Most power users I know haven’t been using SMS for alerts anyway, though. They’ve been using apps like Boxcar, Prowl, and Notifo. Now, it looks like those push helpers for the iPhone might be in trouble. Facebook already has alerts, and I can’t imagine that many people are using push with RSS feeds.

Meanwhile, one of Twitter’s most recent feature additions, Who To Follow, seems to be going gangbusters to increase people’s following/follower numbers. Mike Arrington at TechCrunch looked at the follower numbers for popular accounts and saw a huge increase in new followers that coincides with the launch of Twitter’s people recommendations.

Oh, and tweetmeme back to the question of external developers for one moment is better than many developers through a formal product Twitter (Tweet-key), which were replaced, it was issued but remains lost 20% of their traffic after the button started Tweet (ouch !). And this is what happens when Twitter will not destroy a third product in a single motion. I wonder what would have happened if we have just launched Tweet-button at once? Tweetmeme has now changed direction for the screening and data revenues Twitter.

And that’s your Twitter Tuesday for this week. As always, I’ll be keeping an eye on Twitter news and bringing you more next week. Stay tuned!

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