Twitter came out on Monday and had a very lengthy post on what Twitter thinks its’ enduring values should be and what they must focus on in the future to be successful.
The post is to mainly explain what Twitter envisions as its future for their website and for their users. The post is quite lengthy so we will summarize it here. Read the full article at the Twitter Blog .
Enduring Value
By enduring value, Twitter basically is saying that they will uphold the network and their products, such as the Twitter branded client for mobile devices such as BlackBerry, Apple, and Android devices. Twitter’s goal is to continue to support an open platform of information and maintain an API that can garner access to that API so that all clients can access it. The other areas they talk about are providing a consistent user experience (assumably over partner and API products as well), and a revenue model to sustain that open network.
Ecosystem Clarity
This is in response to the Chirp Developer Conference that Twitter held in April 2010. Developers are seeking clarity about what Twitter will be providing and maintaining.
Twitter maintains that their goal is to do the above values in the Enduring Values category.
I feel this is somewhat of a backlash against Twitter developing its own clients and products for other platforms. Developers who work hard to create these experiences then have Twitter come in and create a very similar product with the Twitter brand name on it, hurts their motivation to create and distribute applications and software that are built on Twitter’s API.
Fostering Innovation
Twitter is reemphasizing that Twitter does not own its user’s Tweets, and that the user’s in fact own their content that they publish to the site.
I feel that overall, this post was in response to the backlash at the Chirp Dev Conference and as well as a preemptive strike against Facebook and the problems they are having.
Twitter wants to make sure that users and developers know that Twitter is the more open of the two platforms, while supporting their users and developers to create innovative products and for users to continue to use the service.
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