At Twitter’s Chirp conference, Evan Williams announced that the microblogging network would be launching an Android app. It’s unclear whether Twitter will acquire an existing app (just like it did with Tweetie) or if the company will partner with a developer or mobile device maker (as it did with RIM for the BlackBerry Twitter app) or if it will develop the app themselves.
Last weekend, Twitter acquired Tweetie, the very popular and highly polished Twitter app for the iPhone. The application will now be called “Twitter for iPhone,” and will be free. On Friday Twitter announced that RIM’s new BlackBerry app would be an “official Twitter app” for the device.
All of these announcements came after investor Fred Wilson wrote a post telling Twitter start-ups to stop filing holes in Twitter’s products and to instead look to launch killer apps that start entirely new businesses. This led many third party developers to question if Wilson was hinting that Twitter may start filling in these holes itself, displacing the need for third party apps with official apps. Wilson on the other hand later mentioned while he was on the Twitter board, he didn’t know of their plans. Twitdroid and Seesmic’s Android app are among the most popular Twitter clients for the device. Stay tuned for more info to see what happens to Twitter on the android os by following us on our Twitter and subscribing to our RSS feeds.
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