James Siminoff

I am the founder of PhoneTag. This blog is about my life as an entrepreneur, traveler and father.

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It is entirely possible that before Twitter makes its first penny, it will become too important to exist in its current form, and the community will feel it has to be replaced by an open source distributed framework. This should strike fear into the hearts of anyone who decides open their API. While the Open API strategy has clearly worked in terms of adoption, it may have worked too well. In fact it may have worked so well that Twitter may be killed before it has even really made it out of the womb, by people that find it so important that they can’t afford to really have it be a company.

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This is a really interesting post (I suggest you read the whole thing) and it will be very interesting to see how this plays out. I like many tech entrepreneurs I have watched Twitter very closely as they have grown. The openness of the Twitter platform has until now been one of its great strengths but as of late it might be there downfall.

At this point Twitter basically has a bounty on its head. The first person that figures out how to truly leverage the openness of Twitter with the scalability of a distributed open platform like say Skype is going to be a hero amongst the big blogs.

I hope that Twitter survives and becomes as a huge of a financial success for the founders as it has been a success in the market. It would be a shame if all of their work in basically creating the microbloging industry is for no return.

Hank Williams

Twitter does go around calling themselves a social-networking utility…

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