Twitter 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!