7-Weeks In, Dalton Caldwell’s App.net Gets First Dedicated iOS App, Passes 17,500 Users

Back in July, Dalton Caldwell (of imeem and picplz fame) announced an "audacious" goal: To create a better, developer-and-user-supported (and ad-free) alternative to Twitter. And so App.net was born. About a month later, the subscription-based, third party app-supporting Twitter clone reached its fund-raising goal of $500K -- all of which came from a community of 7,500+ enthusiastic supporters. Though the service has a long way to go before it can compete with the big boys, today, the App.net founder announced some milestones that show it's making some solid progress. Over 250K posts have been created in the 7-weeks since App.net's debut, with some 50 percent of posts coming from third-party clients. As of August 28th, the service has over 17,500 (paying) users, which works out to about 14 posts per user. Not only that, but as reported by The Next Web, today the service's first dedicated iOS client officially hit the App Store.

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