Some of the biggest brands in tech started out as a single website with a single purpose. Google was once hardly ubiquitous in mobile, cloud services and advertising. Yahoo also started as a search engine before becoming a content giant. Facebook was limited to only college students in the Boston area shortly after it began.

While Twitter is likewise a giant name, and is invaluable for some with its news-breaking and brand-building capabilities, it has thus far been less successful than the aforementioned companies at dipping its hands into many sectors of the online business world.

With the release of the Fabric platform for app developers on Oct. 22 during its Flight Developer Conference in San Francisco, the microblogging service is aiming to become synonymous with far more than 140 characters. As per the company's blog post announcing the service, "The Fabric platform is made of three modular kits that address some of the most common and pervasive challenges that all app developers face: stability, distribution, revenue and identity."

Twitter's relationship with app developers has been a somewhat complicated one. In 2011, it controversially cut off many third-party apps' access to its Application Program Interface (API), often in favor of in-house, in-app services that functioned the same as the third-party apps.

In effect, Twitter's new Fabric release serves as a mea culpa to developers that may have been discouraged or outright banned from integrating with the popular app. The Flight Developers Conference was Twitter's first for developers in four years.

During the announcing of Fabric, Twitter announced that companies such as McDonald's, The Wall Street Journal, Spotify and Kickstarter are already using the new service.

The three modular kits that compose Fabric should all be of great use to developers, and shed light on some of Twitter's recent business acquisitions. MoPub, a 2013 acquisition by Twitter, helps advertisers with monetization and native ad placements. Crashlytics was a fellow acquisition last year, and it allows developers to test apps before release and work out bugs. The January 2013 acquisition of the crash-tracking company was met with question marks by some.

Third, TwitterKit, a new service from Twitter, provides apps with real-time information already on Twitter. As per The Guardian, transportation app Citymapper will use Twitter in conjunction with the London Underground and the San Francisco area's BART.

Furthermore, another Twitter feature rolled out with the triumvirate of developers' kits is Digits, which could be an additional important step in the much-discussed era of "the end of the password." Quite simply, the Digits feature will allow a user to log in to Twitter and other participating apps by using their mobile number, and confirming it using a text-messaged code.

"Fabric is about ... mobile identity, and we're bringing services much broader than Twitter to every mobile developer," said Twitter Vice President of Product Kevin Weil in an interview with CNBC.

If Weil and Twitter's now-ambitious executives have their way, Twitter may become as integral to mobile apps in the tech business world as Amazon is with cloud services and Google is with advertising.