Twitter has bought the Twitter iPhone app Tweetie and is now planning to use that to launch their own official App for Android users as well. The company used the Chirp conference for Twitter developers to push this notice out. As always, there is a lot of confusion and hatered against twitter for doing this to their developers but Twitter never said that it will not make its own official App. The company will of course not block the third party apps that are already there but it does threaten to take their business away.

The main problem that developers are facing right now is the fact that Twitter might implement API calls that only they can and hence make their official app the only app with those features. However, Twitter has always maintained that any new feature that they add will be send down the public stream even before it goes live on the website.

Some experts have suggested that the developers take a fresh look at making twitter clients and innovate in order to stand out from the existing bunch. Some of the developers are already thinking along those lines but the average crop is still outraged. One thing that I see happening in the near future is the death of simple twitter clients that didn’t really do much.

There has been no indication how the Android app is being built over at Twitter HQ and how much the iPhone app is influencing it. However, the Android app is probably going to be built right from scratch and the iPhone app will probably mean very little to it.

So as things stand right now, the official Twitter app is likely to become this most popular Twittering client on the two most popular smartphone platforms to the point of being the de facto.

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