@EvanishTwitter API Meetups Recap
On Wednesday, developers working on the Twitter API met in Boston and Toronto to meet and discuss their apps and the ecosystem. This represents the first of many meetups organized based on local interest in connecting with other Twitter API developers.
While the two groups didn’t get a chance to communicate with each other during their events, reports from both showed great benefits all around:
Boston:
We held a meetup in our oneforty HQ in Central Square. Developers @WaldronFaulkner of GraphEdge, @KabirH from RiotVine, @meattle and @chriscorcoran from Shareaholic, @MikeLangford from Tweetworks and @marksoper from Rally all joined us. We saw demos of new stuff from many of them and had some great discussions about monetization, Twitter’s recent downtime issues and what we’d like to see in future meetups.
Toronto:
From Mark Pavlidas of TweetAgora: “There were 4 people in attendance, @bunnyhero, @etothez, @tsipo, and Paul (can’t remember his twitter handle). We chatted for a while about what we are working on: TweetAgora (@etothez and myself), the others have been doing API work clients or in their spare time. Then I went through the decks from @episod and @raffi on OAuth, entities, and Annotations. Then @raffi called in via Skype for a Q&A.”
Results:
These meetups are a great way to find out who is working on the Twitter API in your area and learn what others are up to. Both Boston and Toronto will be having meetups in the future and inserting new things like lightning talks about Twitter topics and more discussion around future developments (both app-specific and broad like annotations) .
There are over 34 Twitter API meetups all over the world. Check out to see if anyone else is looking to meet up in your area and join them or create one in your city!
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Meetups Everywhere & Annotations Hackfest
Meetups Everywhere: Twitter API
Twitter is changing the way we communicate worldwide. App developers like you are building great apps regardless of your proximity to Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco. Chirp was an awesome way to bring together all the app developers around the world, but what about the other 363 days a year? The answer: Meetups Everywhere.
Just announced at TechCrunch Disrupt, Meetups Everywhere allows meetups to be organized anywhere, anytime based on a common theme. We just created one for meetups around the theme of the Twitter API (click to go to the page).
The goal of these meetups is to just get people talking about developing on Twitter: show off your app, talk about challenges your having developing your app, talk about what you’re working on and just build a more collaborative environment in your area.
Already, there are 9 meetups schedule in 5 countries on 3 continents. If there’s one in your area, we hope you can attend and if you’d like to organize one in your city/town, please feel free; Meetup Everywhere let’s anyone, anywhere create a meetup that will show up on the main page. We’re happy to help promote any meetup organized.
If you’re in the Boston/Cambridge area on the evening of June 16th, we hope you’ll join us at the oneforty offices for our meetup.
Annotations Hackfest: May 29th & 30th @Twitter
The first Meetup Everywhere we have listed is Twitter’s Annotations Hackfest this weekend. It starts Saturday at 1pm and runs through to judging by Paul Graham of Y Combinator and Ron Conway of SV Angels on Sunday. This is your first chance to get a shot at working with the Annotations.
There’s been a lot written about the potential of Annotations and so we hope you’re excited as we are. This is a great opportunity to develop apps for Twitter that are more than features within the platform and instead something amazing on top of it; be the Zyngy of Twitter, not the Superwall.
Can’t make it to San Francisco? Ryan Sarver announced on the Twitter API Google Group that they’ll be looking to remotely communicate with anyone interested in working remotely. Just fill out the form on their event page and denote you’re working remotely (http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/05/annotations-hackfest.html).
As a last bonus note: We’ll feature any apps built over the weekend on our homepage on oneforty if you add them and tag them as “annotations hackfest”.
