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Re:What New Twitter Employees Do For The First Week by benologist on Monday February 07, 2011 @11:39PM (#2191949)
Wasn't their iPhone stuff a single guy who had a nice/leading client they bought last year?
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Re:What New Twitter Employees Do For The First Week by Samuel_Michon on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @12:56AM (#2192138)
Yup, Loren Brichter, who wrote Tweetie. Twitter bought his company, Atebits, and hired Loren to continue working on the iOS Twitter client.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweetie

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Re:What New Twitter Employees Do For The First Week by robryan on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @12:50AM (#2192124)
That client would then touch a lot of other people though, even if it was primarily the one guy. Changes that are rolled out on the platform would need to be considered in terms of this app along with the all other platform apps.

Sure when independent a single guy can sit there and create something like that solo, inside Twitter though there would be a lot more process and interaction to achieve the goals.

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