However there was no follow up to Chirp, and it's fair to say that Twitter has had a checkered relationship with developers as its business strategy has shifted, leading the company to encroach upon the territory that developers were initially encouraged to build upon.
A survival-style game where other players are a threat fits well with the post-apocalyptic setting, but it is new territory for the developer and, with plenty of other very successful online survival games out there, why isn't Fallout sticking to what it knows?
Union City, whose reputation is not as poor as those of some other older cities, is virgin territory for big developers enticed by its location.
But the more intriguing thing about the camera and the accompanying photo album features, is that Apple is again encroaching on app developers' territory with the addition of things like support for panoramic photos and shared photo streams.
And it comes with the territory that an unscrupulous developer's bulldozers are breaking up the property for condos.
It is uncharted territory for most architects, developers and contractors, who are hesitant to take any risks in a tenuous market.
As Twitter continues to "fill holes" in their product, the company is encroaching on the territory that third-party developers have commanded for the past few years.
The Potential Steering Developers To Open Territory Senator Schumer and others have called for a public-private partnership to develop swaths of land for office development through zoning, incentives and condemnation.
"It's totally within Facebook's power to go out and expand their scope into the territory of [other] platform developers," RockYou CTO and cofounder Jia Shen says.
One of the territory's largest real estate developers, Sun Hung Kai Properties, has announced that it is halting work on 10 construction projects because of the current economic climate.
When you see a small, independent team of developers venturing into territory not even the big guns of the industry have dared step into, and do such a marvelous job of it, you have to give them credit!
