• New York Times, Monday, April 12, 2010 2:57 PM

Tensions between Twitter and its developer community -- which The New York Times all but credits for its success -- will reportedly come to a head this week at a conference in San Francisco. "Serious tension was starting to develop long before the conference," writes The Times.

Now, however, "Developers fear that if Twitter's engineers build the same features that they have, Twitter could transform overnight from generous benefactor to arch competitor to their start-ups." Challenging mobile app makers, for example, Twitter just bought Atebits -- a startup that makes Tweetie for the iPhone and Mac, and which worked with Research In Motion to build an official BlackBerry app.

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