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Upstart App.net Takes On Twitter
- Forbes, Monday, August 13, 2012 11:21 AM
Can a little-known upstart disrupt Twitter and its microblogging empire? It will be a long road to hoe, but App.net founder Dalton Caldwell is betting that a friendlier environment for developers -- and a burst of media and industry buzz -- can do the trick. “It will be an interesting experiment,” Forbes writes. “The challenge will be to build a large enough network to be useful. Being paid, it will never achieve the scale of Facebook or Twitter, but Caldwell is less concerned about scale than he is about building trust with users and developers.”
