You could make a piece of crap implementing Twitter’s models and create/read/update/delete in a weekend. Or really, in under an hour with Rails scaffolding. Congratulations, you have now proved that you can guess the schema from using an app. You don’t have a product, or even one tenth of a product.
First-past-the-post has nothing to do with Twitter’s success; polish and thought and sweating the details has everything to do with it.
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No.
http://www.google.com/patents?q=Twitter&btnG=Search+Pate...
Although they did make Loren Brichter patent "pull to refresh":
http://www.google.com/patents?q=Loren+Brichter&btnG=Sear...
Also, please don’t be "I could clone that in a weekend" guy. Everyone hates that guy.
http://blog.bitquabit.com/2009/07/01/one-which-i-call-out-ha...
You could make a piece of crap implementing Twitter’s models and create/read/update/delete in a weekend. Or really, in under an hour with Rails scaffolding. Congratulations, you have now proved that you can guess the schema from using an app. You don’t have a product, or even one tenth of a product.
First-past-the-post has nothing to do with Twitter’s success; polish and thought and sweating the details has everything to do with it.