&quot;Nothing great is Built On Twitter&quot;<p>That quote sums it all up.<p>Most of Dustin&#x27;s suggested extensions are things other people should have built on Twitter. Of course, it also keys into Dalton&#x27;s App.Net plan where Twitter should have been the stream and people should have used a countless applications to make the stream more discernible and allow Twitter focus on ensuring the backbone stays in place.<p>Funny enough, that is how twitter originated. Others built their clients and they focused on the core. They lost that direction and wanted to &quot;own it all&quot; like Facebook. But they took that direction rather too early.<p>Take Tweetstorming as an example which is a niche need. My team built a tweetstorming app <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;writerack.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;writerack.com</a>. It pulls and pushes all it&#x27;s content from and to Twitter. In an ideal case, Twitter should support it and similar ones rather than making Twitter.com more convoluted with the aim of doing everything themselves.<p>If Twitter had supported third patrty developers, someone&#x2F;people would have built a killer app for using twitter to follow and interact live events. That would have brought another set of people into the platform and that extends to other use cases too.<p>Hopefully, Twitter gets it right because I have come to really find Twitter useful.