posted February 5, 2013 #
Twitter tends to catch a lot of flak - the entire service is shallow, the updates are lame, their treatment of third-party developers is less than stellar, the Fail Whale could sneak up any moment, the advertising schemes are awful, etc - but they've done a fairly phenomenal job of providing tools to the Web Development Community for seemingly no reason at all. There's the
Bootstrap HTML Framework and the iconic
Font Awesome that no one can deny are strange releases for a tech company looking to sell you something. Add to that
Twitter Flight, a component-based Javascript framework that utilizes event bubbling to make it worthwhile. Maybe Twitter will pivot one day into a proper tech company while none of us were looking... they've certainly got the products for it.
