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I'm guessing it's also an emotional issue: someone loves Twitter, they use it to communicate in ways they couldn't before. But they are frustrated by Twitter's own apps, and wanted to find a better way to use this service they love.


And so much of twitter's functionality was "contributed" by those same passionate early users - hashtags, @replies etc.

And don't forget if it wasn't for third party developers building their own clients, we wouldn't have the official Twitter clients on iOS or Mac.


Everyone keeps quoting this acting like it validates the sense of entitlement everyone feels they have to all of Twitter's data.




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