The great Twitter takeover: How your favorite apps are putting Fabric to work<article>
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Twitter has long had an uneasy relationship with developers who want to tap into the network’s wealth of information to make their own apps better. (See: the
2012 API changes.) But the company’s new suite of tools, called
Fabric, is designed to do just that: it offers Twitter’s crash analytics tool, access to Twitter's mobile ad network, and a kit full of ways to put Twitter itself at the heart of any iOS or Android app.</p><p>
The network opened its Twitter kit to developers ahead of launching Fabric last week. Already tens of thousands of developers around the world are using the tools, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said during Monday’s third-quarter earnings call. Early launch partners are putting the new tools to good use, reaching more than a billion iOS and Android users already, Costolo said. So what does an app looked like all decked out in Fabric? </p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2839464/the-great-twitter-takeover-how-your-favorite-apps-are-putting-fabric-to-work.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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The great Twitter takeover: How your favorite apps are putting Fabric to work
