The Killer Twitter App Hasn’t Been Built Yet

Imagine an application that acts as a super proxy for your Twitter account. The server acts as the client, pulling updates from the API. Updates are relayed to your iPhone and desktop clients in near real-time1 with XMPP. No more multi-device API limitations getting in your way. Add in analytics, trends (specific to your follow list), link harvesting, groups, searches, filtering and more automatically sync’d to all your devices.

Why doesn’t this exist? This should be what Twitter itself does, but I can’t see them suddenly going in this direction. Build it and you can have my money.

[1] As in, as fast as it can be delivered once it is retrieved from the API. Not real-time to the initial update.

Posted July 1st, 2009 9:51 PM
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  • I also think a killer app for Twitter isn't out there yet, is TweetDeck the best positioned to complete this vision?
  • Kai
    Perhaps a upcoming Google Wave application will do what you want..
  • john
    meh. twitter sucks anyways
  • mdonahoe
    I know people don't like the "Twitter is just email" comparison, but I would really love the Twitter version of IMAP. Between my work computer, my laptop and my phone, I read a lot of duplicate "unread" tweets.
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