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The Death of Third-Party Twitter Clients: From UberTwitter to the 2023 X API Cutoff

UberTwitter became UberSocial in 2011. Tweetbot and Twitterrific died in 2023. The 14-year arc of third-party Twitter clients and what it tells operators about platform risk.

EPR Editorial Team · Feb 18, 2011

Social Media

Diaspora and the Federated Social Lineage: From the 2010 Kickstarter to the 2026 Fediverse

Diaspora launched in 2010 with $200K from Kickstarter and four NYU students. The project still operates with 850K+ users. Its federated model now shapes Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads.

EPR Editorial Team · May 13, 2010

Social Media

Google Buzz and the 14-Year Pattern: Why Google Cannot Build Consumer Social

Google Buzz launched Feb 9, 2010, shut down Oct 2011. Google+ followed and died in 2019. The pattern across Buzz, Wave, Plus, and the post-Threads landscape Google is sitting out.

EPR Editorial Team · Feb 15, 2010