what makes a good apps @140tc
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Slides of our upcoming panel "What makes a good twitter app"This is to serve as a guiding post, expect a lot of discussion from the panelists.TRANSCRIPT
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What makes a good app?
At 140tc 26 May 2009
Moderator: @sujamthe Panelists - @atebits, @dom, @bs
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Apps that twitterville loves 1. Twitterville never tires of new twitter clientsclients for diifferent mediums tweetdeck, tweetie, twirl, twitroid, twitterberry,
hootsuite, cotweets2. Apps adding functionality to keep twitter simple Photo on twitter - twitpic, tweetphoto for photo sharing,
bubbletweets with videos on twitter,3. Innovative and simple to use goes with basic twitter twitpay, tipjoy, stockpic, twitcal4. Churning twitter data twitgrid, twitfall, twitanalyzer
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Features adapting to users need
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User-driven evolution of an app
User-driven evolution is mandatory for any product that works on top of Twitter, much like Twitter itself
- Loren Brichter of Tweetie
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Simplicity, SMS, & Small Societies
“Simplicity, Focus, Craftmanship” @Dom
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Twitter web as first class client
“Web to Twitter Client Transition” @bs
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Apps integration to other apps
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Questions
1. What are viral hooks you can build into your app from the twitter api? Via appname? What else?
2. How much metrics and tracking do you have built in to see what functionality works for your users?
4. What is unique when you connect two platforms? e.g my app tmeet on iphone, or tweetpo.st app on facebook