Aspiring Twitter Competitor Releases Private-Messaging API

App.net, a paid service that launched with the intention of delivering all of the promise that Twitter had before it began to see itself as a website rather than a service, today launched a private messaging API with a mockup open-source app.

App.net, a paid service that launched with the intention of delivering all of the promise that Twitter had before it began to see itself as a website rather than a service, today launched a private messaging API with a mockup open-source app.

Before now, App.net’s paid API only supported public posts in a format similar to Twitter’s.

The API has generated some excitement among developers because it can be used in a number of increasingly high-demand contexts.

In addition to one-on-one chat capabilities, the API could for the basis of “an old-school AOL chat room,” said CEO Dalton Caldwell.

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