Twitter to Open Labs Site, Announces New Lists Feature
Twitter to Open Labs Site, Announces New Lists Feature
Posted 10/02/2009 at 2:47pm
| by Jason Barry
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Twitter announced at the Future of Web Apps conference in London that they will be implementing a Twitter Labs feature. A seemingly familiar idea, the Twitter Lab will be a formal outlet for Twitter approved plug-ins that are submitted by developers using the API. They expect it to launch “soon” but were skimpy on the details.
Twitter is also testing out a new “Lists” feature that will allow users to compile lists of their favorite tweeters. Users can create their own buckets of Twitter accounts and share them (or keep them private). The lists are linked from the users profile and can be subscribed to by friends. Developer information will be released in the next few days as the feature is rolled out.
Do you find your Twitter account lacking cool, new, functionality? Are you looking forward to organizing your Twitter friends? Does anyone still use Twitter?
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1337Goose
October 02, 2009 at 3:23pm
A few new brush ups here and there would be nice, but I'd hate to see Twitter change drastically every 2 or 3 months a la Facebook.
And of course people are still using twitter. Wasn't there an article on MaxPC outlining how twitter usage has doubled recently or something like that?
~Goose
JCBarry
October 02, 2009 at 6:20pm
Hey Goose,
You're referring to this article: Twitter's Growth Continues to Surprise...I was thinking about this article: On Twitter, Most People are Sheep...
Promoting developers' ideas is a great way to get more people interested in their API, so it's good stuff for everyone involved. However, I question whether or not they have the dedicated user base making plug-in development worthy of developer's time.
Jay Barry
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1337Goose
October 02, 2009 at 6:54pm
You raise a good point. The people over at twitter still have a lot of details to work out, like the idea of a revenue model.
I think it's too early to say how effective these Labs features will be. If they're anything like Google Labs, then the they will only be available to users who login from the web based interface. Ineffective I'd say, seeing as this would ignore the large number of users who use text messaging or a third party twitter client.
As for developer interest? I say, if you build it, they will come. Developers have already flocked to the twitter APIs, why not labs too?
~Goose
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