Twitter to Refocus on Mobile in Coming Months
At the VentureBeat Mobile Summit this week, Twitter’s vice president of engineering, Michael Abbott, had a lot to say about the company’s increasing focus on mobile.
All Things D reports that Abbot and his team will still be making apps despite Twitter’s recent successes with HTML5. So you fans of Twitter for iPhone, don’t fret: there’s no plans to shelf the app any time soon.
Abbott also noted that this refocus on mobile is Twitter going back to basics: it began as an SMS service, and even today 40% of tweets are sent from a mobile device.
While on stage, Abbott addressed some of the criticism that Twitter had been hit with lately in light of its perceived squashing of the third-party developer community.
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