Art Imitates Life

Josh Cantone looks at the phenomenom of platform fatigue. I was thinking about this very subject today while looking through a disorganized list of AIR apps. It’s nice to see people contributing, but how many Twitter apps do we need? There’s good stuff out there, but without a well thought out delivery system, the truly innovative projects might get lost.

This is what happened to Facebook. When the platform launched, there was a huge amount of buzz around the potential for advertisers and app developers. Subsequently, a huge number of applications were created on the platform and users were faced with a rising tide of apps that demanded their attention. End result: app fatigue. We started seeing app fatigue set in less than a year after the platform’s launch when there were just over 15,000 total applications — there are now over 53,000 apps on the Facebook platform, according to Adomonics.