Jul 12, 2011 09:16 GMT  ·  By

Twitter is finally showing the third-party developers working with its platform some love. Not that it seemed to matter too much, Twitter's own numbers show that there are now one million registered applications using the Twitter APIs.

That's up from 150,000 last year, so the tensions between the community and Twitter don't seem to have had too much of an effect on developers wanting to get in.

[admark=1]"As an ecosystem, we’ve just crossed one million registered applications, built by more than 750,000 developers around the world... A new app is registered every 1.5 seconds, fueling a spike in ecosystem growth in the areas of analytics, curation and publisher tools," Twitter wrote.

The idea seems to be that the ecosystem is as healthy as ever, it's flourishing even. It's a bit surprising considering that Twitter got a lot of bad blood last year.

It started developing its own client apps, or acquiring the most popular ones, essentially competing with the third-party developers and apps directly.

Earlier this year, Twitter made it even clearer that it doesn't want apps competing with what Twitter already does and that developers should not focus on duplicating functionality the site and its official apps already offer.

But Twitter is trying to patch things up with a new developers site, with more detailed information and a new discussions forum. There is also a new blog aimed at developers, which will keep them up to date with the latest news on the platform side.

"Today we're launching the new version of our Twitter Developer Site," Twitter announced.

"So, we listened to everyone and gathered your ideas. The new site enhances communication channels, offers improved reference material and documentation, and will foster better interaction for everyone who visits it," it explained.

By the numbers alone, the Twitter ecosystem is very healthy. However, while Twitter does show that there is some money to be made by building on Twitter, the company itself is struggling for revenue so third-parties can't really be doing so great either.