While that may be true, Twitter has a lot of its popularity and mechanics to thank for from the third party apps.
Think of hashtags and slashtags: http://gigaom.com/2010/04/30/the-short-and-illustrious-histo...
Even the verb 'to tweet' and the bird imagery allegedly came from outside of Twitter.
If it weren't for Loren Brichter's app Tweetie, I probably wouldn't have even bothered with using Twitter.
While that may be true, Twitter has a lot of its popularity and mechanics to thank for from the third party apps.
Think of hashtags and slashtags: http://gigaom.com/2010/04/30/the-short-and-illustrious-histo...
Even the verb 'to tweet' and the bird imagery allegedly came from outside of Twitter.
If it weren't for Loren Brichter's app Tweetie, I probably wouldn't have even bothered with using Twitter.