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TwitApps, which provides tools for Twitter, is shutting down the project and releasing its code to the open source community. Dallas, the project leader, says the decision disappoints him but he's simply no longer interested in continuing it and hopes others will pick it up and move forward.

It's becoming increasingly common for developers to get started on small (and large) projects, only to abandon them to the open source community for further development. In a blog post on his Web site, Dallas told TwitApps' 4,000 users: