Comment by myhf 9 years ago Twitter for $50/year 3 comments myhf Reply Illniyar 9 years ago So a social network? weird name for a social network. transitorykris 9 years ago It wasn't meant to be just a stand alone social network/twitter clone. The idea was to allow developers to build apps on it (even their own twitter clone, why not?) and skip having to build a social graph themselves. kwood 9 years ago The original idea was to focus a lot on the API part of the site, so that developers can build all kinds of apps around the service, hence the name.
Illniyar 9 years ago So a social network? weird name for a social network. transitorykris 9 years ago It wasn't meant to be just a stand alone social network/twitter clone. The idea was to allow developers to build apps on it (even their own twitter clone, why not?) and skip having to build a social graph themselves. kwood 9 years ago The original idea was to focus a lot on the API part of the site, so that developers can build all kinds of apps around the service, hence the name.
transitorykris 9 years ago It wasn't meant to be just a stand alone social network/twitter clone. The idea was to allow developers to build apps on it (even their own twitter clone, why not?) and skip having to build a social graph themselves.
kwood 9 years ago The original idea was to focus a lot on the API part of the site, so that developers can build all kinds of apps around the service, hence the name.
So a social network? weird name for a social network.
It wasn't meant to be just a stand alone social network/twitter clone. The idea was to allow developers to build apps on it (even their own twitter clone, why not?) and skip having to build a social graph themselves.
The original idea was to focus a lot on the API part of the site, so that developers can build all kinds of apps around the service, hence the name.