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Biz Stone, einer der Gründer von Twitter, im September 2007:

The API has been arguably the most important, or maybe even inarguably, the most important thing we’ve done with Twitter. It has allowed us, first of all, to keep the service very simple and create a simple API so that developers can build on top of our infrastructure and come up with ideas that are way better than our ideas …

So the API, which has easily 10 times more traffic than the website, has been really very important to us.

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Twitter-CEO Dick Costolo benennt die Strategie des Mikrobloggingdienstes im Interview mit dem Wall Street Journal sehr direkt. WSJ.com:

In its events push, Mr. Costolo said Twitter is vying to “more closely tie the shared experience on Twitter to the actual event that is happening.” As Twitter burnishes its platform, Mr. Costolo added that Twitter also wants to move away from companies that “build off of Twitter, to a world where people build into Twitter.”

Die Übersetzung im deutschen Wall Street Journal:

Gleichzeitig wolle das sechs Jahre alte Unternehmen aus San Francisco anderen Firmen stärker erlauben, Funktionen bei Twitter einzubauen, die man selbst nicht anbieten könne oder wolle, sagte Costolo.

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