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Members of Tumblr and Wordpress blogging communities can now access blogs via the Twitter API.  The companies cloned the Twitter API to allow users to  read and write blog posts via popular Twitter client applications. (Wordpress announcement, Tumblr announcement, disclosure: this blog runs on Tumblr.)

That certainly says something about the ubiquity of the Twitter API and the popularity of Twitter clients. I suspect it also makes access to Wordpress and Tumblr more mobile-friendly and makes both platforms more approachable to people who would prefer smaller bites of content.

To engage in a bit of speculation, I would not be surprised to see more instances ofTwitter API cloning soon.  The obvious candidates would be other blogging communities like LiveJournal or Vox.  (Personally, I think the experience of accessing Google Reader via a Twitter client would be unique and potentially useful.)

Also, I expect to see a ton of Twitter clients adding support for alternate API hosts.  This is required to make Twitter API requests from content providers other than Twitter; only some clients support it today.

On the other side, I wonder what other APIs besides Twitter’s are worthy of cloning.