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Twitter just revived their developer conference after seven years.

Twitter just revived their developer conference after seven years.

After a seven-year-long waiting period, Twitter has now once again started hosting an in-person developer conference as the company is now bringing back “Chirp”, their developer conference that will take place in San Francisco on November 16th, this year. The name Chirp came from the first-ever developer conference they held back in 2010, although that event was canceled in subsequent years. The last time the company hosted a live event was Twitter Flight in 2015.

Ever since that last developer conference, Twitter has always had a little rocky relationship with developers, as the company made a series of API changes in 2018, there were very unpopular and poorly communicated, which resulted in issues among makers of third-party Twitter clients were particularly affected as they accused the company of breaking their apps. The company did try to improve its relationship with developers, launching an all-new API in 2020, and introducing new tools to make it easier for researchers to study the platform. Also testing out new developer-friendly features like recommending some third-party services in their app.

It’s still not clear what’s going to be on the agenda at the developer conference, as the company does say in the blog post that there will be keynote technical sessions and opportunities to meet the Twitter developer platform team to get your answers. Also, this keno will be streaming live on Twitter for Devs not attending in person.

Twitter just revived their developer conference after seven years.

Twitter just revived their developer conference after seven years.

After a seven-year-long waiting period, Twitter has now once again started hosting an in-person developer conference as the company is now bringing back “Chirp”, their developer conference that will take place in San Francisco on November 16th, this year. The name Chirp came from the first-ever developer conference they held back in 2010, although that event was canceled in subsequent years. The last time the company hosted a live event was Twitter Flight in 2015.

Ever since that last developer conference, Twitter has always had a little rocky relationship with developers, as the company made a series of API changes in 2018, there were very unpopular and poorly communicated, which resulted in issues among makers of third-party Twitter clients were particularly affected as they accused the company of breaking their apps. The company did try to improve its relationship with developers, launching an all-new API in 2020, and introducing new tools to make it easier for researchers to study the platform. Also testing out new developer-friendly features like recommending some third-party services in their app.

It’s still not clear what’s going to be on the agenda at the developer conference, as the company does say in the blog post that there will be keynote technical sessions and opportunities to meet the Twitter developer platform team to get your answers. Also, this keno will be streaming live on Twitter for Devs not attending in person.