Unlike some of Twitter’s other services, the upcoming launch of Annotations doesn’t involve a product, but a rethinking of the way the social network functions. The changes involved could have a tremendous impact on not just on the network, but on the nature of the web ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Om and I walked over to Twitter headquarters yesterday to meet with Twitter head of platform Ryan Sarver and head of product Jason Goldman, who told us what the company has done to keep its promise to developers at Chirp to be their friends. Read more »
The recent dust-up between Twitter and its developers is like a real-time instruction manual in managing developer relations — something that any service which hopes to become a broad platform needs to think about. How much of what is core to your business do you control, ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
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Twitter’s Chirp conference this week was ultimately an overdue kickoff of the company’s developer community. With more than 100,000 applications created on its platform to date, it’s frankly amazing that Twitter hadn’t formalized its roadmap and addressed competition with developers before. Read more »
Twitter will soon give developers access to streams of user activity on its system, and allow them to create their own annotations to send along with tweets, Twitter’s director of platform Ryan Sarver said at the company’s Chirp conference, being held in San Francisco today. Read more »
“Twitter has always been about developers,” Evan Williams told Chirp attendees today. “Twitter is the ecosystem more than any other web services that has ever existed. You’ve helped define it, poured in your time and energy all the while putting up with our growing pains.” Read more »
Twitter and Facebook will hold their developer conferences this Wednesday (April 13) and next Wednesday (April 21) in San Francisco. It’s a juxtaposition that begs for comparison, so here you have it. Read more »
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