Is the Twitterverse too vast?

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Brian Solis and the people at Jess3 have put together a map of the Twitterverse.

It’s basically a visualisation of the services and tools that exist around Twitter, from URL shorteners through mobile apps to search and trends. It’s a good starter for anyone looking for some of the off-the-beaten track apps/services, but also underlines a point I was talking about last week.

One of Twitter’s strengths is its openness. This allows users or developers to access the service in pretty much any way they can imagine. But it’s also a bit of a problem for Twitter. There’s the risk that almost any premium service that they could offer could be replicated by a third party working with Twitter’s API. This may prove to be an issue for successful monetisation.