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That's different. Browsers have standards. What works in one browser, generally works in another. Twitter is a monopoly of Twitter. You can't hot plug your now homeless app into a different version of Twitter.



You could if Twitter implemented OStatus: http://www.w3.org/community/ostatus/wiki/Main_Page


You can't hot plug your Chrome app into IE or your iOS app into Android either.


Firefox is implementing a new API for plugging in apps, that is intended to be largely Chrome-compatible though: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Ch...




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