Twitter API as the Social Presence Standard?
August 2nd, 2007 by matt
Dave Winer yesterday in his Status of the Platform, 2007 edition, suggests that the Twitter API may be a great standard we should clone for other apps.
Much as RSS 2.0 was a format used to communicate between various UserLand products that turned into a lingua franca for an industry, the Twitter API may end up having significance outside the confines of the startup that’s launching it.
Perhaps the Twitter API - or the Twitter platform itself - could be the model for a “social presence” primitive that could be used for all apps that want to integrate presence information, as I opined yesterday.
As Dave also suggests, it sounds like a good subject for a BarCamp …
Tags: twitter, api, social networks, barcamp
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