Recently I’ve been more and more amazed by the ecosystem being built around Twitter.

Three things have made an impact:

  • TweetScan : When we announced the Live Mesh Technology Preview tweetscan was one of the key things we used to monitor the vibe and engage with interested parties.
  • TwerpScan (thx for headsup DownloadSquad) :
    • When third parties start to clean up your spam/fraud problem you know you either have a nasty environment or a great ecosystem; in this case I think it just shows twitter has some killer developers following them.
    • If everyone ran TwerpScan I suspect that would fix a lot of the recent instability, someone who was following me was also following 60,000 other people, there is no way that is a real person, it is just someone wanting to get their name in an inbox (or a sympathy follow to push ads). When there are edge cases like this I’m guessing they add to the load of the system – TwerpScan should be built in.
  • Twistory : puts your tweets in your calendar.

---

No wonder this apparently happened (note: could just be a rumor).