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Robert Scoble talks with Loic Le Meur, CEO of Twitter client
Seesmic, about the pressures of operating in such a volatile ecosystem. Making Seesmic’s prospects more uncertain, “Twitter [recently] announced it will compete
with the client partners [including Seesmic] it so famously enabled,� Scoble notes. As The New York Times reported earlier this week: “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.�
Taking the side of the developers and startups, Scoble suggests that Twitter should have given the upstarts more notice, or at least saying something to the effect of: “Hey, you
might think about taking your company in another direction.�
