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In the past, Twitter has focused on its social networking site—twitter.com, and left the development of Twitter mobile clients up to start-ups like Tweetie, Twitterrific and UberTwitter. Now, the company, which has flourished thanks to tools built by outside developers, is taking more of those tools under its own wing.
Twitter has agreed to acquire the Maker of Tweetie–Atebits, in a move that is sure to rattle its developers. It is the start-up that makes the Tweetie apps for using Twitter on Mac computers as well as iPhones. The company also announced yesterday that it helped Research In Motion build an official Twitter app for BlackBerrys. All these movement signal a new strategy of Twitter to make the first foray into providing a mobile and desktop users.
Developers of Twitter are getting concerned that Twitter’s plans of building or buying more apps could possibly put them out of business.

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