The problem with Twitter has always been monetization: Ads don’t pull in the revenue needed to maintain the social network, and it doesn’t have Facebook’s pull to entice developers to build on top of the platform. But no more — or at least so Twitter hopes.

Today at its Twitter Flight event, Twitter unveiled Fabric, a software development kit for mobile apps. The move represents the company’s first foray into services and something of a new start for the social network.

Fabric is an extension that sits on top of existing iOS and Android development environments — including the Android Native Development Kit and Apple’s Xcode —  letting devs quickly and easily pop in features like bug and crash tracking, Twitter identity sign-in, Tweet embedding, Twitter ad plug-ins, beta app distribtuon, and Digits, a new app onboarding concept based on the user’s phone number (more on that later).

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