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There were things like Tweet Longer, and TwitPic (before Twitter had images) and lots of other little services that built on top of Twitter.

Twitter then started doing a lot of that stuff on its own and tried to kill off the other services (3rd party clients like Falcon Pro, TwitPic, etc.)

What was once a beautiful ecosystem to support this interesting 140 character thing got gobbled back up by a company that realized it needed to monetize.




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