Twitter Tuesday - Third-Party Developers Are Still Innovating

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Welcome back to Twitter Tuesday! Apple stole the spotlight this week with iPhone 4 and WWDC news, but things have been happening on the Twitter beat, too. (I mean, someone had to livetweet Steve Jobs' keynote, right?) If you'd rather hear about what's new with everybody's favorite microblog, though, you've come to the right place.

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So, it's become clear that Twitter is grabbing up a lot of territory that used to belong to third-party developers. By launching official Twitter apps and taking over in-stream advertising, Twitter has forced developers to come up with new features or lose all their business to Twitter itself.

Some developers have responded more effectively than others. Check out Brizzly's new "Picnic" feature, which lets you set up a private group chat using direct messages. It's already drawn rave reviews from TechCrunch and others, and it offers something that Twitter hasn't even announced any plans to develop. That's what it's going to take to survive in this brave new Twitter ecosystem.

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