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Climber is a Vine-inspired video sharing app built for App.net

By Chris Welch on March 26, 2013 02:40 pm + 30 comments

It's impossible to look at Climber, a "very simple video-sharing tool" created for App.net users, Continue reading…
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App.net adopts freemium model, now offering invite-only free accounts

By Chris Welch on February 25, 2013 01:13 pm + 57 comments

App.net is going freemium; CEO Dalton Caldwell has announced that starting today, paid users can Continue reading…
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Ad-free social network App.net moves from Twitter clone to cloud platform

By Tim Carmody on January 28, 2013 01:30 pm + 34 comments

With its alpha release, App.net promised a new kind of social network: a short-message service like Continue reading…
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Is Twitter changing course? App.net's Dalton Caldwell ponders the possibility

By Andrew Webster on November 18, 2012 11:39 am + 19 comments

The appointment of Peter Chernin to its board of directors represents the latest step in Twitter's Continue reading…
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Tweetbot-maker launches Netbot, a first-class but familiar client for App.net

By Ellis Hamburger on October 3, 2012 12:01 pm + 71 comments

Tweetbot-maker Tapbots today announced the release of Netbot, a $4.99 iPhone and iPad client for A Continue reading…
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App.net lowers annual fee to $36 and adds a monthly option, as membership nears 20,000

By Vlad Savov on October 2, 2012 03:48 am + 35 comments

The upstart social network that aims to give people a paid alternative to Twitter and Facebook's Continue reading…
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App.net gets off to slow start, with just 250 users generating half of all posts

By Louis Goddard on September 7, 2012 09:13 am + 125 comments

Just over a month after the launch of the ambitious Twitter challenger App.net, the service seems to Continue reading…
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Study: App.net, Medium, and Svbtle users are overwhelmingly white and male

By Laura June on August 29, 2012 04:49 pm + 48 comments

Silicon Valley isn't known for diversity, so it's perhaps not terrifically surprising to find that Continue reading…
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Twitter-competitor App.net gets its first phone app: Hooha for Android

By Dan Seifert on August 27, 2012 03:19 pm + 40 comments

App.net is aiming to be the people's competitor to the likes of Twitter, but it will never get there Continue reading…
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Twitter is great, Twitter is terrible: vague new rules leave developers in the dark

By Adrianne Jeffries on August 20, 2012 03:34 pm + 27 comments

Friday was an emotional day for the independent developers who have created many of Twitter's most Continue reading…